Russia: Alexei Navalny Dies in Prison
February 16th, 2024Via: Reuters:
Alexei Navalny, Russian President Vladimir Putin’s most formidable opponent, collapsed and died on Friday after a walk at the “Polar Wolf” Arctic penal colony where he was serving a three-decade jail term, the Russian prison service said.
The death of Navalny, a 47-year-old former lawyer, robs the disparate Russian opposition of its most courageous leader as Putin prepares for an election which will keep the former KGB spy in power until at least 2030.
There are now no opposition leaders of such prominence left in Russia. For some young urban Russians, Navalny also offered hope of an alternative future to Putin, who has served as Russia’s paramount leader longer than anyone since Josef Stalin.
Navalny rose to prominence more than a decade ago by documenting and speaking publicly about what he said was the vast corruption and opulence among the “crooks and thieves” running Putin’s Russia.
One take on Navalny, from an interview done by a Polish blogger—to paraphrase from around minute 8—he came to the US on a CIA/Yale education package, and “what Navalny was, was the living embodiment of the corruption of the West”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ruv49PYBeds&t=390s
Here’s Daniel McAdams, Ron Paul’s sidekick these days, saying the same thing:
twitter.com/DanielLMcAdams/status/1758722706407591958
Natali at Redacted News on Navalny:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g8g4QRTyN9E
He was whacked, just as Epstein was in the West. There are no good guys in world leadership, just two competing final-phase Marxist factions: the Anglo-led West and the Russian-led East.