A Russian prosecutor has ordered that the network of offices supporting jailed Putin critic Alexei Navalny must suspend all activities across Russia. The prosecutor also applied to a court to suspend the work of Navalny’s Anti-Corruption Foundation (FBK). It is a move to label the groups as “extremist”, which would give the authority to jail activists and freeze the groups’ bank accounts. The German government has condemned the move as contrary to the rule of law. Last week Navalny – Russia’s most prominent opposition figure – announced he was ending a hunger strike after 24 days of refusing food in jail. Hours earlier his private doctors had appealed to him to eat to preserve his life and health. The BBC’s Sarah Rainsford in Moscow says that with Navalny now in a penal colony east of the city, authorities are moving to close down all his team’s activities. Some of his supporters have been planning to run in parliamentary elections in September.(BBC)…[+]