Posted on 01/18/2018 3:50:01 PM PST by GoldenState_Rose
Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny said Thursday that police were raiding his campaign headquarters in Saint Petersburg as he pressed ahead with a call for a boycott of presidential polls.
"Right now a search is going on in our Saint Petersburg headquarters," Navalny wrote on Twitter, posting a video of uniformed police and non-uniformed officials with his staff.
The charismatic politician, who has called a major protest on January 28, is urging voters to boycott the March election in which President Vladimir Putin is expected to win a fourth Kremlin term. Navalny himself has been barred from standing in the election because of a fraud conviction he says was politically motivated. His campaign offices around the country are gathering support for a poll boycott, but supporters say his campaign workers have come under intense pressure from the authorities.
Navalny's campaign press secretary Ruslan Shavedinnov told AFP that "in the last two days there have been searches in 11 offices, they are taking away equipment and leaflets supposedly calling for a boycott."
Shavedinnov added that as he was speaking police had arrived at a 12th campaign office in the town of Izhevsk in the Urals region.
"We link this to the January 28 protest. The authorities are afraid of a large number of people on the streets and are trying to hinder us."
The campaign office's Twitter account said that police "have chucked out everyone except the coordinator (and) seized equipment, turned off our security cameras and covered the windows... so we cannot film."
Navalny wrote on Twitter that the authorities "are afraid of a boycott by voters. That means it's the right thing to do. Join us."
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That being said, it's only a matter of time before, the fake news about Trump-Russia collusion will with real news about Russia's own inner turmoil and the collapsing system of Vladimir Putin, which will be one of the significant markers of this decade.
Mark. My. Words.
Putin: “Communist ideology is like Christianity. Lenin’s body - saintly relics.”
https://www.rt.com/news/415883-putin-communist-ideology-christianity/
Vladimir Zhirinovsky exposing Navalny (English subs)
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=1vLbDfqktto
Now go dispute Zhirinovsky on that. Everything he said is factually true.
Navalny is a fraudster by the way of life and so is his campaign.
His only topic is that he is against Putin and that is all.
Then comes some empty socialist talk of ‘just ways’ and promise of free money.
He is a lot like Obama vs Bush although Obama had some details behind ‘Hope and change’ Navalny doesn’t.
His ‘anti-corruption’ activism is as fraudulent as the rest of his life. Initially it was a blog with police press releases regarding corruption cases without links to original sources.
Funny thing, the government fights against the corruption and he takes credit and taunts it over it.
Agree with some points you say.
Yes, many of them consider Putin the closest thing to Jesus Christ that they can imagine. He has all the traits that are important to them, and they get quite excited if it takes his shirt off.
Concurring bump...I don't think he's an opposition "leader" either, anymore than Al Sharpton is one.
Rabble rouser is more like it.
“” “” anymore than Al Sharpton is one.”” “”
I haven’t thought of that but you make perfect point. His cheerleaders include an equivalent of the rent is too damn high guy, obamaphone lady and other such characters who are too weird or too far left for mainstream Communist Party.
Yet, McCain and Hillary believes this bunch is robbed by ‘Putin regime’ of winning every election since 2012.
I guess someone is playing US foreign policy makers for fools and getting rich in process.
Lol...if there is a Russian equivalent of the Obamaphone lady, I’d like to see the video.
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