Posted on 02/16/2024 5:36:02 AM PST by McGruff
Jailed Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny has died, the prison service has said.
He was seen in a video call in January, joking about his prison outfit at the Arctic penal colony he had been moved to a month earlier.
The IK-3 colony, nicknamed "Polar Wolf", is in the northern town of Kharp, some 1,900km (1,200 miles) northeast of Moscow.
It's seen as one of the toughest jails in Russia and most detainees held there have been convicted of serious crimes.
Speaking to journalists on the video call, Navalny appeared to be in good spirits, joking that he was yet to receive any Christmas mail...
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Here is him on video just yesterday
Footage of Navalny from Feb 15, 2024 court hearing where he spoke via video link from his penal colony
https://rumble.com/v4dr2du-footage-of-navalny-from-feb-15-2024-court-hearing.html
No one in Russia is safe while Putin lives.
Interesting.
Are you sure he didn’t “fall” out of a window?
“No one in Russia is safe while Putin lives.”
May his days be few and his end just.
Navalny was a hero.
After the Putinists tried killing him he voluntarily returned to Russia where he was immediately imprisoned and convicted in a show trial.
To Putin bootlickers resistance is futile and Russian patriots show bow and do obeisance to the new Tsar.
The apologists for Putin mimic the dupes like Walter Duranty who glossed over Stalin’s barbarism.
We have real political prisoners -- from peaceful J6 protesters to pro-lifers facing 11 years in prison for acts of civil disobedience at abortion clinics.
We have a President trying to imprison his political opponent with ridiculous charges and trying to get states to remove him from the ballot.
The obsession with Russia is sickening given how corrupt the Biden regime and Deep State is.
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