Posted on 03/22/2022 9:38:02 AM PDT by Conservat1
If he didn’t have any power, State security would not bother with him.
Russian oligarchy resembles the crime families in ‘The Godfather’ much more than ‘1984’.
If you’d analyze Navalny’s history, he first stole from the state coffers as a staffer of Kirov governor, by handing free government property to a fake PLC, which then sold the property at market price and he got the cut.
Also his brother is a Russian Post manager. They made logjam with the parcels sent by a French cosmetics company to their customers and then approached the CEO demanding bribes to “solve the problem”.
This last episode is that given the convicted felon barred from running for public office, he organized the collection of “campaign donations” which he spend to buy real estates in the US and Europe, and a lot of other fancy things to himself.
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