Posted on 12/25/2023 10:26:39 PM PST by Eleutheria5
Jailed Russian opposition politician Alexei Navalny has been tracked down to a penal colony north of the Arctic Circle, his spokeswoman said on Monday, after supporters lost touch with him for more than two weeks, Reuters reports.
Navalny, 47, was tracked down to the IK-3 penal colony in Kharp in the Yamal-Nenets region, about 1,900 km north east of Moscow, spokeswoman Kira Yarmysh said. Navalny's lawyer managed to see him on Monday, she added.
"This prison will be much worse than the one that was before," Yarmysh told Reuters. "They are trying to make his life as unbearable as it possibly can be."
"They definitely try to isolate Alexei and to make it more difficult to access him," said Yarmysh, who refused to disclose her location due to security concerns.
Navalny's allies, who had been preparing for his expected transfer to a "special regime" colony, the harshest grade in Russia's prison system, said he had not been seen by his lawyers since Dec. 6 and raised the alarm about his fate.
Navalny's new home, known as "the Polar Wolf" colony, is considered to be one of the toughest prisons in Russia, according to Reuters. Most prisoners there have been convicted of grave crimes. Winters are harsh - and temperatures are due to drop to around minus 28 Celsius there over the next week.
Navalny, one of Russian President Vladimir Putin's most prominent critics, was arrested in January of 2021 for alleged parole violations after returning from Germany, where he had been recovering from being poisoned with a military-grade nerve agent.
He was later sentenced by a Russian court to a three-and-a-half-year sentence, though his lawyer said he would serve only two years and eight months in jail because of time he has already spent under house arrest.
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Is communism still alive in Russia?
No long bread lines.
Okay. Guess I'll never visit Russia then.
THIS is what stinking Biden and his cabal of American-hating commies and perverts would like for Trump. Put them there instead.
This is traditional behaviour for Moscow. They were doing it long before Bolshevism, and will continue to do it forever.
Prison in the Gulags is actually considered leniency. Usually they just throw political opponents out of tenth-story windows. Or Novichok them if they're in foreign countries.
I was expecting Navalny to turn up in a Storm-Z unit north of Avdiivka.
That’s just for thieves, murderers and pedophiles. Political prisoners are the serious criminals, and they must be punished with special treatment. But at least Putin’s down on LGBTQ.
Yes, even during the time of the Czars, they were trying to expand. The way I heard it, was that they knew their borders could not be defended well, so they just expanded them. I don’t agree with that thinking, but that was their idea.
Oh it can’t be true. Putin is a good Christian man
Navalny went on a skiing trip. Putin just paid his train fare so he could go skiing. Yeah. That’s the ticket.
Now that would have been a plot twist! 😉
You’ve hit on the key point here. We’re dealing with a diseased culture and society that has no interest in reform. Tsarism, Communism, Putinism. Russian chauvinism in its various historical flavors always makes Russians serfs and slaves to their Kremlin. It’s their fate, sadly.
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2019/07/more-links-uncovered-between-george-soros-and-russiagate-through-russian-opposition-official-alexander-navalny/
More Links Uncovered Between George Soros and Russiagate through Russian Opposition Official Alexander Navalny
The Gateway Pundit previously reported on the Soros-related origins of the Russia collusion conspiracy. Now there is more information on George Soros’ role in Russiagate through the West’s favorite Russian opposition blogger Alexander Navalny.
Activist Alexei Navalny became one of the key figures in the fake Russiagate conspiracy theory when he released a video linking Trump ex-campaign manager Paul Manafort to Russian oligarch Oleg Deripaska, reported by the Telegraph in February 2018. At the same time, the Telegraph had to admit the video “does not specifically mention Donald Trump”. In addition, Oleg Deripaska “denied receiving briefings from the Trump campaign, although he admitted hiring Mr. Manafort as a consultant in previous years”, the Telegraph reported. Although it was a “big nothingburger”, it was fit to print in the NYT.
In 2009, opposition blogger Alexei Navalny emerged as leader of the Russian opposition and was portrayed as a hero by Western media. In 2010, he graduated from a half-year Yale Greenberg World Fellowship, which was originally called White House Fellows under Bill Clinton’s Presidency. The first program director of the Yale World Fellows was Dan Esty, energy and environmental policy adviser for the 2008 Obama campaign.
Soon thereafter Navalny started an anti-corruption campaign in Russia that was supported early on by Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. Vladimir Putin accused Secretary Clinton of supporting Navalny in 2011, saying she sent “a signal” to “some actors in our country”.
At the same time, Navalny allegedly went to work for the Open Society Foundations (OSF) methadone program, which aimed to “bring together actors, alliances from different spheres (i.e. Navalny)”, as OSF documents leaked by DC Leaks showed 2015. George Soros supported a whole network of radical left-wing NGOs in Russia before being banned in 2015.
Navalny is still closely allied with exiled oligarch Mikhail Khodorkovsky, who modeled his “Open Russia Foundation” on Soros’ network. Khodorkovsky’s London-based investigative research unit Dossier, which has often shared hacked documents from unknown sources, was also behind NYT 2018 claims Russian lawyer Natalia Veselnitskaya was acting on behalf of the Russian government when she offered allegedly incriminating evidence to Donald Trump. Jr. in the infamous Trump Tower Meeting. It has since emerged Veselnitskaya met with Fusion GPS head Glenn Simpson before and after the June 9 2016 Trump Tower meeting, placing her closer to the Clinton opposition research campaign than the Kremlin.
Alexei Navalny and his brother Oleg were recently convicted of embezzling 26 million Rubles from French cosmetics firm Yves Rocher, with whom they had a Russian distribution deal 2008 to 2011, the Navalnys were represented in French court in Vannes, Brittany by attorneys William Bourdon and Amélie Lefebre of Association Sherpa, a whistleblower defense which also defended Edward Snowden and is supported by the Clinton Foundation‘s Humanity United, Freedom Fund and the Open Society Foundations. Although the plaintiff was French company Yves Rocher, who also sued for damages in France, Western media depicted it as some sort of sham trial instigated by Vladimir Putin. While Oleg was sent to prison for three years, Alexei Navalny was given a suspended sentence and remains free.
Mikhail Khodorkovsky and Alexei Navalny write for leftist flagships The Guardian and the New York Times, where Navalny demanded sanctions against his own country over the Russian annexation of the Crimea 2014 (which many Russians consider a “reunification”). Navalny’s daughter Daria Navalnaya gave a video statement on New York Times Video on June 27, 2019 – a remarkable opportunity for a 17-year-old young woman.
It now emerges George Soros and the Clinton-Obama Democrats (who worked closely together in Eastern Europe from Macedonia to Ukraine) have been trying to poison US-Russian relations for years by means of allies like Navalny and Khodorkovsky. An alliance between Trump, Putin and other leaders like Benjamin Netanyahu, Nigel Farage, Viktor Orban and Matteo Salvini is their worst nightmare, and they will stop at nothing to prevent it.
How many more connections are there between Soros and Spygate?
Maybe Navalny would win a fair election, and maybe not. Maybe he’s a Soros asset, or maybe this is just another example of Russian Maskirovka. Either way, you publicize that allegation and let the voters decide. You do not exile him to Siberia. Of course, that only applies in a democracy/republic. Russia is not even a bad imitation of either.
All lies, as usual, to justify the Muscovites’ totalitarianism.
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