Russian scholar on the campaign against opposition leader Navalnyj

Nearly a week ago, the local elections were held in Russia, but a result is still waiting in St. Petersburg. This has led the opposition to claim electoral fraud while the Kremlin leadership rejects the problems and calls them "a little hiccup".

Russian police this week conducted a comprehensive raid against opposition leader Aleksey Navalnyj's movement in 39 cities in the country.

Martin Kragh, director of the Russia and Eurasia program at the Foreign Policy Institute, says it is an obvious reaction from Russian authorities.

"Partly on the protest movement that Navalny led during the summer against power in Russia, but also on the success that Navalny had," says Martin Kragh in SVT's Aktuellt.

Martin Kragh believes that the police now want to press the organization in Russia, which today has the most nationwide nationally organized structure, to organize political protests against power in Russia.

- When you organize so many people against the political power in Russia, it is very sensitive. Many opposites have been imprisoned, Navalnyj is one of them, he says.