Alexei Navalny's network is crumbling under Kremlin pressure 30 Apr, 2021 12:35 AM 7 minutes to read Municipal workers paint over graffiti of Russia's imprisoned opposition leader Alexei Navalny in St Petersburg, Russia. Photo / AP Municipal workers paint over graffiti of Russia's imprisoned opposition leader Alexei Navalny in St Petersburg, Russia. Photo / AP New York Times By: Anton Troianovski Associates of Alexei Navalny said they were shutting down their nationwide network of regional offices on Thursday even as the imprisoned Russian opposition leader vowed, in an online court appearance, to keep fighting the "emperor with no clothes" in the Kremlin. Disbanding Navalny's 40 regional offices became inevitable in recent weeks, an aide to Navalny said, amid the Kremlin's latest efforts to stifle political dissent, adding that some of the offices may continue to operate as independent entities. Prosecutors are seeking to have Navalny's movement declared an extremist organisation, and a Moscow court this week ordered Navalny's groups to halt all public activity, including participating in political campaigns or referendums.