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Thousands turn out to mourn Navalny, defying Putin, at funeral in Moscow
NBC News.com ^ | March 1, 2024 | Alexander Smith

Posted on 03/01/2024 2:59:58 PM PST by Timber Rattler

For one day at least, Russia’s opposition came alive to mourn its lost leader.

The funeral of Alexei Navalny on Friday almost did not happen at all. But thousands ultimately turned out — braving the snow, heavy security and weeks of Kremlin efforts to derail the event — so that they could pay their respects to the man who challenged President Vladimir Putin with a vision for a democratic Russia.

Bearing flowers, candles and placards, the crowd chanted Navalny’s name as his body was first delivered to a church in southern Moscow for a brief funeral and then to a nearby cemetery.

There were also riskier words uttered in a country where the state crushes even modest displays of dissent. “Russia without Putin!” “Russia will be free!” and even “Putin is a murderer!” were all audible cries from the clamorous masses.

(Excerpt) Read more at nbcnews.com ...


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; Russia; Ukraine
KEYWORDS: alexandersmith; alexeinavalny; bobputinbot; ciaagitprop; freedominrussia; jonputinbot; kremlin; murder; naturalcauses; navalny; nbcia; newsfromthecia; putin; putinsyappingyesmen; snekmaximus; ukieyipyappers; zeepercreepers
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Putin has another big internal problem on his hands...

VIDEO: Russia: Thousands gathered in Moscow for Alexey Navalny's funeral procession and burial. They chanted "Russia without Putin!" and "Putin is not Russia!"


1 posted on 03/01/2024 2:59:58 PM PST by Timber Rattler
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To: Timber Rattler

Coming to a head? I doubt it.

It would be awesome!


2 posted on 03/01/2024 3:04:24 PM PST by DIRTYSECRET
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To: All

How dare they actually stand up and say something about Putin?!

His contingent of yapping yes-men on Free Republic will be disappointed to hear that.


3 posted on 03/01/2024 3:04:44 PM PST by MplsSteve
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To: Timber Rattler

...and MILLIONS stay put. No surprise.

By the way, did our embassy PAY the relative handful of people to be there, like often happens in the US?


4 posted on 03/01/2024 3:05:04 PM 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: Timber Rattler

Most Russians

Are fed up with communism

The poisoning goes on

Gog Soviet poison usa

MaGog Soviet poison nato - un

Rev 13

Zeepers snort it like cocaine


5 posted on 03/01/2024 3:05:14 PM PST by Firehath (Quackery - An irrelevant simplification / undetected Complex problem - attacking symptoms)
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To: Timber Rattler

who?


6 posted on 03/01/2024 3:12:37 PM PST by JonPreston ( ✌ ☮️ )
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To: MplsSteve

get back over that border.


7 posted on 03/01/2024 3:13:12 PM PST by JonPreston ( ✌ ☮️ )
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To: BobL

Here’s another layer in the whole Russia-Ukraine-Putin-Zelensky drama.

True? I don’t know. But it would explain why Biden’s cabal is supporting Ukraine.

https://twitter.com/warclandestine/status/1762550620232323503?s=58&t=OEVDkNINIF5iuPI9uuMVKw


8 posted on 03/01/2024 3:20:47 PM PST by Rennes Templar (Come back, President Trump.)
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To: MplsSteve
"His contingent of yapping yes-men on Free Republic will be disappointed to hear that."

I see yet another individual who claims that people who are against spending billions of unaccounted-for tax payer dollars in Ukraine for yet another proxy war with Russia, makes us Putin's "yapping yes men." Just because you don't agree with us, doesn't mean you need to label us like liberals do.

9 posted on 03/01/2024 3:20:49 PM PST by mass55th (“Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway.” ― John Wayne)
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To: Rennes Templar

It’s all true, but what’s AMAZING in that photo was that you could get so many Ukrainian leaders together and be able to hide all the NAZI symbols.

That’s a FIRST in my book.


10 posted on 03/01/2024 3:23:42 PM 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: Allegra; AndyJackson; ANKE69; bimboeruption; dforest; doorgunner69; fireman15; MoochPooch; ...
Moscow population +13 million. Thousands showed up.

ZEEPER FOLLIES PINGLIST!

(((PING!)))

... to be added to the best Zeeper-provided entertainment since Paul Shanklin parodies, ping me bro.

11 posted on 03/01/2024 3:51:18 PM PST by aMorePerfectUnion
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To: MplsSteve
His contingent of yapping yes-men on Free Republic will be disappointed to hear that.

Thank you!!

12 posted on 03/01/2024 3:55:44 PM PST by rexthecat
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To: aMorePerfectUnion

Zeepers, the REMF for the Biden and the Deep State open borders forever war crowd.


13 posted on 03/01/2024 3:56:29 PM PST by AndyJackson
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To: Timber Rattler
Gonzolo Lira ring a bell?

You know the AMERICAN CITIZEN who was left to die in a UKE prison?

Why didn't you post any articles bemoaning his untimely death?

Here's a reminder of who Gonzalo WAS:

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14 posted on 03/01/2024 4:21:10 PM PST by bimboeruption (“Less propaganda would be appreciated.” JimRob 12-2-2023)
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To: Timber Rattler

I know people there who bravely attended memorials for him. It’s tough times for them.


15 posted on 03/01/2024 4:24:01 PM PST by Moonmad27
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To: Timber Rattler

That little crowd will win the war. You bet.

Why are the FR globalist communists not talking about the actual combat at the front? What is it that they are trying to obfuscate about?


16 posted on 03/01/2024 4:27:48 PM PST by wildcard_redneck (He who sacrifices freedom for security deserves neither.)
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To: JonPreston
Who?

Navalny was CIA operative groomed at Yale (where all deep state spooks are recruited).

17 posted on 03/01/2024 4:38:52 PM PST by CapandBall
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To: Timber Rattler

Putin can't arrest everybody.

18 posted on 03/01/2024 4:41:11 PM PST by MinorityRepublican
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To: mass55th

Ignore the CIA/UKE ops. They are paid to say this stuff.


19 posted on 03/01/2024 4:41:27 PM PST by Seruzawa ("The Political left is the Garden of Eden of incompetence" - Marx the Smarter (Groucho))
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To: BobL

https://www.latrobe.edu.au/news/articles/2022/opinion/russias-long-history-of-neo-nazis


20 posted on 03/01/2024 4:45:37 PM PST by roving (Deplorable Listless Vessel Trumpist With Trumpitis and a Rainbow Bully)
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