Posted on 11/12/2023 4:59:12 AM PST by Timber Rattler
A Moscow appeals court has upheld a 19-year prison sentence for Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny, who was convicted on extremism-related charges in August.
Navalny, a fierce critic of Russian President Vladimir Putin, is already serving a 9-year sentence on fraud and embezzlement charges.
In August, the court said Navalny had financed and incited "extremist activities" with his group the Anti-Corruption Foundation. The group was banned by Russian authorities in 2021 and labeled as extremist.
Navalny has rejected the charges as politically motivated by the Kremlin in an attempt to silence him.
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The appeal was held in a closed hearing, as Russia's Interior Ministry had said Navalny's supporters could stage "provocations," Russian state news agency Tass reported. Navalny appeared via video link from a maximum security penal colony in the town of Melekhovo, about 150 miles east of Moscow, where he is being held. He will now be transferred to a different maximum security facility, Tass said.
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You left off Jeffrey Epstein, who got strangled while in Federal Custody or was that our establishment who got him killed.
Jeffrey Epstein was the opposition leader of what country?
LOL
So does Zelensky. Gonzalo Lira is still missing after Zelensky set his stooges on him.
He was worse, he had video of major political figures having sex with children.
Do we really have to post the list of all the victims of the Clintons who have crossed them, the Clintons have killed so many people a phrase was created to describe it, you ever hear of the term “Arkancide”...
What a load of rubbish, from a pretend conservative acting the neo-con. Here's conservatism for you -- with a citation so that you can read the whole thing.
The state is an organized crime racket. It appropriates wealth by coercion and regularly uses force in violation of the nonaggression principle. The state is a parasite that perpetuates itself at all costs and extends itself by any means possible. Regardless of its putative leaders, the state grows and increases its power at the expense of its hosts and others who fall victim to its predations.Your Canadian version of Conservative isn't any more conservative that the neo-con statists in the UK who call themselves Conservatives, but act otherwise.As Hans-Hermann Hoppe poignantly wrote, states are “gangs of murderers, plunderers and thieves, surrounded by willing executioners, propagandists, sycophants, crooks, liars, clowns, charlatans, dupes and useful idiots—[the state is] an institution that dirties and taints everything it touches.”
One of the state's dirty occupations is war. When undertaking war, the state uses expropriated wealth and human capital to defend its territory or extend its reach and influence. Clearing away the fog of statist preconceptions regarding war, Hoppe explains that war is gang warfare: “Gang wars, then, typically involving some territorial issues, are always wars conducted by rival gang leaders with other people's money, machines and manpower (just think of taxation and compulsory conscription!).”
In Statism Is the Cause of the Israel-Hamas War Mises Institute, 30 October 2023
"Russian apologist?"
Here are some members of the "organized crime racket(s)." Putin, Zelensky, Biden, Blinken, Nuland, von der Leyen, Stoltenberg, Borell, Trudeau and so many others. I "apologize" for none of them. You do, neo-con.
Clintons suicide hot line makes you and Putin both look like pikers, or is it hosers!?
lol
the fact that you can’t come up with even one example of a Western opposition politician being assassinated by a leader in power - while Putin has killed many - proves my point
Russia is a gangster regime
this thread is about Russia, Jon-boy
try to stay on topic
Not for a lack of effort but Steve Scalise to a AK 47 round to his hip over his political views, the shooter was a Bernie Bro.
So about Canada; why was a Nazi honored, and why are you silent about it?
You are out of touch with reality. I’ll bet you have TDS also.
guess we were getting too close to the truth about your beloved Putin, so you had to jump in with your “look, a squirrel” attempted diversion
we see that a lot with you Russian stooges
The only diversion is you refusing to acknowledge what's happening in your country, and instead pointing to Russia. If you are unable to agree that honoring a Nazi, while giving him a life-long pension, as in the case of Canada, indicates a fundamental flaw in governing, then you have a real problem.
why are you still talking to me?
“Now beat it. I don’t speak to foreigners.”
25 posted on 11/26/2022, 7:13:32 AM by JonPreston
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4111919/posts
guess that was another one of your lies, huh
is there anytime you DON’T lie??
And it's true, you are a foreign Troll who refuses to denounce a Nazi in your own country.
He does. All Zeepers have TDS and TCDS. They seem to have no problem with RINOs and RATs.
I responded to you because you pestered me with 4 comments
despite you claiming that you “don’t speak to foreigners”
yet more proof that everything you say is bogus nonsense
That didn't happen, and asking you to denounce your government when it honors a Nazi is hardly pestering. Since you refuse, I'll keep reminding you of this uncomfortable fact. It's important that you come to an American forum not bringing this whiff of Nazi baggage with you.
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