<p class="title">Police detained Russian opposition politician Alexei Navalny on Thursday during a raid on the headquarters of his Anti-Corruption Foundation (FBK) in Moscow, his spokeswoman said on social media.</p>.<p class="bodytext">"Alexei was forcibly detained and taken away. He did not resist. Lawyers are still at the FBK, and there's a search underway," Kira Yarmysh, Navalny's spokeswoman, wrote on Twitter.</p>.<p class="bodytext">CCTV footage of the raid showed police using power tools to saw through the front door. A group of men, some of them masked, could then be seen searching the office before one of them covered a CCTV camera up with tape.</p>.<p class="bodytext">There was no immediate comment from the police.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The raid occurred a day after Navalny said that the forcible military conscription of one of his allies to a remote air base in the Arctic amounted to kidnapping and illegal imprisonment.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Allies said Navalny, who was barred from running in a presidential election against Vladimir Putin last year, had been due to present his own show, which is critical of the authorities, on his online TV channel later on Thursday.</p>.<p class="bodytext">It was not immediately clear why Navalny had been detained, but his foundation, which specialises in publishing exposes on the corruption of state officials, is the subject of a criminal investigation into alleged money laundering.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Investigators opened the money laundering case in August after Navalny called for people to demonstrate in central Moscow over the exclusion of opposition candidates from a local election.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Those protests grew into Moscow's biggest sustained protest movement in years before fizzling out.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The Justice Ministry in October formally labelled Navalny's anti-corruption group a "foreign agent", meaning it can be subjected to spot checks and face bureaucratic scrutiny.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Navalny has called that move and others part of a coordinated and trumped up campaign to stifle the anti-Kremlin opposition's activities.</p>
<p class="title">Police detained Russian opposition politician Alexei Navalny on Thursday during a raid on the headquarters of his Anti-Corruption Foundation (FBK) in Moscow, his spokeswoman said on social media.</p>.<p class="bodytext">"Alexei was forcibly detained and taken away. He did not resist. Lawyers are still at the FBK, and there's a search underway," Kira Yarmysh, Navalny's spokeswoman, wrote on Twitter.</p>.<p class="bodytext">CCTV footage of the raid showed police using power tools to saw through the front door. A group of men, some of them masked, could then be seen searching the office before one of them covered a CCTV camera up with tape.</p>.<p class="bodytext">There was no immediate comment from the police.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The raid occurred a day after Navalny said that the forcible military conscription of one of his allies to a remote air base in the Arctic amounted to kidnapping and illegal imprisonment.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Allies said Navalny, who was barred from running in a presidential election against Vladimir Putin last year, had been due to present his own show, which is critical of the authorities, on his online TV channel later on Thursday.</p>.<p class="bodytext">It was not immediately clear why Navalny had been detained, but his foundation, which specialises in publishing exposes on the corruption of state officials, is the subject of a criminal investigation into alleged money laundering.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Investigators opened the money laundering case in August after Navalny called for people to demonstrate in central Moscow over the exclusion of opposition candidates from a local election.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Those protests grew into Moscow's biggest sustained protest movement in years before fizzling out.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The Justice Ministry in October formally labelled Navalny's anti-corruption group a "foreign agent", meaning it can be subjected to spot checks and face bureaucratic scrutiny.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Navalny has called that move and others part of a coordinated and trumped up campaign to stifle the anti-Kremlin opposition's activities.</p>