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What Navalny’s death means for Russia – and the rest of the world
The Telegraph ^ | 19 February 2024 • 7:00pm | Viv Groskop

Posted on 02/20/2024 3:37:36 AM PST by Chad C. Mulligan

I follow a lot of Russian language accounts on social media. I first realised something had happened on Friday when I saw a Russian listings magazine post a crying emoji with a picture of the face of Navalny, Russia’s leading opposition figure. This was odd. Their posts were usually apolitical – recently about Rothko in Paris, Timothée Chalamet in Wonka and Prince Charles’s health. News of Alexei Navalny’s death hit the Russian-speaking online world moments before it broke across international media. The very first reaction was cryptic and euphemistic. You could sense the thought behind the responses: Is he really dead? And, if he is, is it OK to protest his death? As the minutes ticked by, one question surfaced: Would people comment on this who wouldn’t usually say anything? *snip* In photographs and videos since his arrest in January 2021 right up to the day before his death was reported, he could be seen laughing, smiling and making a heart sign with his hands. These images can seem surprising but this is a phenomenon Pussy Riot – no strangers to arrest and prison – explained in their photographic exhibition Velvet Terrorism. You make an effort not to present yourself as downbeat or depressed when there are photographers present, even if you are in great pain or feeling hopeless. Because “negative” photos are so easily used to make you appear “guilty” or “suspicious”. Navalny traded instead in hope, transparency and humour.

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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; Russia; Ukraine
KEYWORDS: bfd; getnavalny; globalistpropaganda; murder; murdered; navalny; nazitactics; putin; russiarussiarussia; smearcampaign
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To: bert
If you pay attention you will know that we are not sending money to Ukraine.

That's a line of BS.

41 posted on 02/20/2024 5:31:32 AM PST by BlackbirdSST (Trump or Bust! Long live the Republic.)
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To: enumerated

“Fist” s/b “cost”


42 posted on 02/20/2024 5:32:50 AM PST by enumerated (81 million votes my ass)
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To: BlackbirdSST

A Bradley or an F16 are not money


43 posted on 02/20/2024 5:33:34 AM PST by bert ( (KE. NP. +12) Hamascide is required in totality)
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To: rockwell torrey

We are no longer a republic.

We are under attack by our Deep State.

I don’t give a rat’s patootie about these BS foreign distractions.


44 posted on 02/20/2024 5:41:17 AM PST by mewzilla (Never give up; never surrender!)
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To: Right_Wing_Madman

“You’re a pathetic globalist like Biden, John Kerry, and Von der Crazy.”

Apparently Navalny supported Russia’s Liberation of Crimea, so he did have a good side. Also heard that he was against Grooming.

Possibly fake positions so as to have some credibility with the Russian public, but either way, the Neocon support for him shows just how low they’ll go.


45 posted on 02/20/2024 5:42:47 AM PST by BobL (Trump gets my vote, even if I have to write him in; Millions of others will do the same)
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To: bert
A Bradley or an F16 are not money

Good grief bert. How do their day to day .gov ops and their pensioners get paid? It ain't with Bradley's and F-16's.

46 posted on 02/20/2024 5:45:10 AM PST by BlackbirdSST (Trump or Bust! Long live the Republic.)
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To: Chad C. Mulligan
"Their posts were usually apolitical – recently about Rothko in Paris, Timothée Chalamet in Wonka and Prince Charles’s health."

In other words these were anti-Russian globalists, just like anti-American globalists in the US. Stop pretending you represent anyone but a tiny arrogant and out of touch elite that is waging war against humanity.

47 posted on 02/20/2024 5:45:59 AM PST by EnderWiggin1970
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To: canuck_conservative

“...well-organized smear campaign we see here today on FR...”

Because in your head you think Freepers are meeting on Zoom every morning, and agreeing to post the same thing (just like journalistas).

God forbid, that anyone would independently go against the Ukraine globohomo agenda. /spit


48 posted on 02/20/2024 5:47:50 AM PST by Flavious_Maximus (Tony Fauci will be put on death row and die of COVID!)
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To: BlackbirdSST

It is my understanding that most of the American money was actually stuff. Currently, the EU has provided enough admin money to fund the government for perhaps two years.


49 posted on 02/20/2024 5:47:50 AM PST by bert ( (KE. NP. +12) Hamascide is required in totality)
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To: Chad C. Mulligan

US PRESS CORPS.

Gets all worked up about Navalny being supposedly killed in prison, but Epstein? Not so much!


50 posted on 02/20/2024 5:48:54 AM PST by BereanBrain
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To: Chad C. Mulligan

“’The deepest form of ignorance is the rejection of something you know nothing about and refuse to investigate.’ Wayne W. Dyer”

What is your point, genius?

I have been following that story closely, so do not need to read another handwringer agnonizing over it.

“To assume is to presume.” ― Jude Morgan


51 posted on 02/20/2024 5:49:49 AM PST by odawg
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To: rockwell torrey

Another great example of a free man who has been imprisoned by the very people shooting their mouths off about poor Navalny.


52 posted on 02/20/2024 5:49:58 AM PST by dforest
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To: Chad C. Mulligan

The Telegraph? You might as well post the Compost.


53 posted on 02/20/2024 5:57:57 AM PST by AndyJackson
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To: Chad C. Mulligan

The Zeepers have found their new Jesus in the CIA’s dead puppet.


54 posted on 02/20/2024 6:04:38 AM PST by wildcard_redneck (He who sacrifices freedom for security deserves neither.)
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To: Chad C. Mulligan

Yeah, I read thru it. Total WEF crappola. You are a prat.


55 posted on 02/20/2024 6:14:51 AM PST by bobbo666 (Baizuo, )
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To: Chad C. Mulligan

What about ..

What Ashley Babbet’s death means for the United States – and the rest of the world?


56 posted on 02/20/2024 6:15:58 AM PST by stars & stripes forever (Blessed is the nation whose GOD is the LORD. (Psalm 33:12))
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To: cymbeline

The timing of his death benefited Putin in no way.
He was locked up, no political threat, the one election he ran in ( Mayor of Moscow) he got about 27% of the vote, too many in his political party were nationalist extremists and never appealed to most ( yes most) Russians, and Putin is riding a wave of over 80% approval now that Russians realize that the war in Ukraine is really NATO and the West against Russia.

Who benefits?

Well, the alphabet agencies and USG sponsored shadowy NGO’s trying to grow a color revolution in Russia…got a martyr to the cause ( the expendable Navalny) and a new leading figure, his grieving widow

Who just happened to be at the Munich Security Conference when the death was announced… surprise

which was about funding war against Russia, now there’s a real opposition cause to take to the Russian people

and in front of Western leaders and media to take up her cause.


57 posted on 02/20/2024 6:16:53 AM PST by silverleaf (“Inside Every Progressive Is A Totalitarian Screaming To Get Out” —David Horowitz)
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To: Right_Wing_Madman

You know who else was a globalist?

Winston Churchill when he stood up to Hitler.


58 posted on 02/20/2024 8:06:09 AM PST by Miami Rebel
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To: cymbeline

“The Archduke and Archduchess were assassinated in Sarajevo? Where’s that and who cares?”


59 posted on 02/20/2024 8:08:30 AM PST by Miami Rebel
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To: Miami Rebel
“The Archduke and Archduchess were assassinated in Sarajevo? Where’s that and who cares?”

If it wasn't for France's alliance with Russia, it only would have been a fight between Germany, Austria-Hungary and Russia.

60 posted on 02/20/2024 8:10:36 AM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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