Posted on 02/17/2024 6:44:45 AM PST by libstripper
ussian opposition figure Alexei Navalny’s death Friday at a Russian prison camp in the Arctic silenced a man who was arguably the most influential remaining critic of President Vladimir Putin and the authoritarian state the former spy has methodically built on the wreckage of the Soviet Union.
Putin, who has effectively run Russia for 24 years and is seeking to extend his time in office for another six years in elections set for next month, now strides the Russian political stage with almost no visible challengers. Many of those who have opposed him have ended up in prison, or dead.
Since Putin launched his invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, the Kremlin has introduced laws to punish critics of its military campaign, muzzled independent media, branded pro-peace authors and artists as “foreign agents” and denied Russians the ability to publicly express opinions about the war. Authorities have unleashed a wave of repression to ensure compliance. Many ordinary citizens have been swept up in a crackdown and handed fines and lengthy jail times for what authorities view as discrediting the army or spreading misinformation about Russia’s stalled military campaign. A 72-year-old woman who questioned Russia’s conduct in the war in Ukraine online was sentenced recently to 5½ years in jail.
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Well said!
Navalny is to Putin what Trump is to Biden.
So which one is the greater evil?
Putin or Biden?
Putin, obviously - Biden doesn’t attack & invade neighboring countries
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AAAANNNNDDDD...there you have it. You just outed yourself.
So the CIA will stop meddling in Russia, nope.
Depends on your view.
Putin isn’t attacking my country but Biden is, in other ways.
Spare me the whole “Poland is next, then , UK then USA then the world”. It’s a regional conflict that’s been going on since 2014.
I thought the same thing. Democrat blue just showed itself.
One of the stupider things that G.W. Bush did... and he did PLENTY of stupid... was telling us that he had looked into Putin’s soul.
“The main difference is Russian culture accepts and could be argued necessitates a strongman”
Mexican culture has a similar streak. “El Jefe”. I suspect it’s a reason that some of them admire Trump.
Ya kinda like when parents go to a school board meeting to ask what’s happening with THEIR children, and the FBI & DOJ hunt them down and arrest them for interfering with the NWO agenda?????
Britain and France, who have such a hard on to get the US (taxpayer) to send even more and more $Billions to “Ukraine,” are playing right along in their media, to ballyhoo the death of the Russian dissident Navalny.
Navalny’s widow accuses Putin of killing her husband as relatives are again denied access to body
Yulia Navalnaya: Russian opposition leader’s ‘principled and fearless’ widow
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-68336393
Navalny’s widow to attend EU foreign affairs council meeting
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