A lawyer has been detained in Kaliningrad on suspicion of treason
well-known lawyer [Maria Bonzler] was detained in Kaliningrad, accused of "confidential cooperation with a representative of a foreign state."
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Bonzler's apartment was searched, as well as an inspection of the premises at the place of residence of her colleague, the former candidate for governor of the Kaliningrad region from the [Yabloko] party, Roman Morozov
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Maria Bonzler defended a certain Igor Baryshnikov in Kaliningrad, sentenced to seven and a half years in a penal colony for posting deliberately false information on social networks regarding the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation participating in a special operation to denazify Ukraine.
https://eadaily.com/en/news/2025/05/30/a-lawyer-has-been-detained-in-kaliningrad-on-suspicion-of-treason
anti-war activist is being jailed for 7.5 years
Baryshnikov got interested in politics in 2013 amid Maidan events.
“There was a Jewish organisation [Baryshnikov’s mother is a Holocaust survivor] already helping us at that point, but I didn’t warn them that we might need additional support.
29.06.2023
https://ovd.info/en/igor-baryshnikov-jailed-7-years-anti-war-posts
The Russian United Democratic Party Yabloko is a social-liberal political party in Russia.
The party also advocates for the protection of the rights of LGBT people in Russia
In March 2002, the party became a full member of the Liberal International
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yabloko
Liberal International (LI) is a worldwide organization of liberal political parties. The political international was founded in Oxford in 1947 and has become the pre-eminent network for liberal and progressive democratic parties aiming to strengthen liberalism and democratic values around the world.
The Oxford Manifesto describes the basic political principles of the Liberal International
The Oxford Manifesto was inspired by the ideas of William Beveridge
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liberal_International
William Henry Beveridge, 1st Baron Beveridge, KCB (5 March 1879 – 16 March 1963) was a British economist and Liberal politician who was a progressive, social reformer, and [eugenicist] who played a central role in designing the British welfare state.
Beveridge was a member of the Eugenics Society, which promoted the study of methods to 'improve' the human race by controlling reproduction.
Churchill invited Beveridge to join the Board of Trade, and he organised the implementation of the national system of labour exchanges and National Insurance to combat unemployment and poverty. During the First World War he was involved in mobilising and controlling manpower. After the war, he was knighted and made permanent secretary to the Ministry of Food
He was also one of the signatories of the agreement to convene a convention for drafting a world constitution
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Beveridge
A world constitution is a proposed framework or document aimed at establishing a system of global governance.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_constitution
It is not yet clear why the lawyers — Maria Bontsler, Roman Morozov and a third, who has not been named — were searched or whether they now face criminal charges. … In 2024, Morozov was nominated to stand as governor for the liberal Yabloko party at elections in the Kaliningrad region.
https://novayagazeta [dot] eu/articles/2025/05/28/lawyers-defending-chronically-ill-political-prisoner-undergo-searches-in-kaliningrad-en-news