Alex Navalny Dies In Prison

[hackey lad]

1 hour ago, Zinger549 said:

 

Pinching the flowers to sell on .

[Al Bundy]

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13097013/Sir-Keir-Starmer-faces-fresh-Labour-row-senior-member-accuses-murdered-Alexei-Navalny-far-Right-Nazi-sympathiser-wake-Kremlin-critics-death.html

 

Oh my, not more trouble?

 

Edited February 19 by Al Bundy

[peak4]

4 hours ago, Al Bundy said:

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13097013/Sir-Keir-Starmer-faces-fresh-Labour-row-senior-member-accuses-murdered-Alexei-Navalny-far-Right-Nazi-sympathiser-wake-Kremlin-critics-death.html

 

Oh my, not more trouble?

 

Sunak seemed full of praise too, along with various other political leaders, but I'm not sure if The Mail has mentioned that.
 

Rishi Sunak @RishiSunak
This is terrible news. As the fiercest advocate for Russian democracy, Alexei Navalny demonstrated incredible courage throughout his life.

My thoughts are with his wife and the people of Russia, for whom this is a huge tragedy.

 

Many folk seem to show slightly dodgy judgement regarding whether your enemy's enemy is your friend.

Revealed: UK government helped sanctioned Putin ally sue British journalist

UK Treasury, then under Rishi Sunak’s control, let Yevgeny Prigozhin circumvent sanctions to target Eliot Higgins

Sanctions introduced in the UK and Europe in 2020 were supposed to prevent anyone from doing business with Prigozhin. He had also been sanctioned in the US in 2018.

But a vast cache of hacked emails shows that, under the leadership of Rishi Sunak, the UK Treasury issued special licences in 2021 to let the oligarch override sanctions and launch an aggressive legal campaign against a journalist in the London courts.

 

Navalny's history was no secret
Has Alexey Navalny moved on from his nationalist past?

The Kremlin’s greatest critic stopped attending far-right rallies many years ago, but he still supports anti-migrant measures.

Alexey Navalny became the undisputed leader of anti-Kremlin political forces and anyone opposed to Russian President Vladimir Putin, largely because of his muckraking videos on corruption in the Kremlin halls of power.

Muslim ‘cockroaches’
In a 2007 pro-gun rights video, Navalny presents himself as a “certified nationalist” who wants to exterminate “flies and cockroaches” – while bearded Muslim men appear in cutaways.

He whips out a gun and shoots an actor wearing a keffiyeh who tried to “attack” him.

The 42-second video was released by the Russian National Liberation Movement, a nationalist group Navalny had just co-founded with Zakhar Prilepin, a renowned novelist who later fought for pro-Russian separatists in southeastern Ukraine and joined a pro-Kremlin socialist party earlier this year.

I suspect nothing is as simple as some would wish us to believe; a longish article from New Yorker makes interesting reading ( I hope the link works as I was struggling to get past the paywall)
The Evolution of Alexey Navalny’s Nationalism
According to Volkov, Navalny now regrets making the 2007 video in which he advocated for deporting Central Asian migrants, but he has not deleted it from YouTube “because it’s a historical fact.” Navalny stands by his support for gun ownership, an issue on which he and Volkov disagree. On immigration, Navalny has refined and reframed his position: when he advocates for a visa regime with Central Asian countries now, he emphasizes the need to protect the rights of migrant laborers. “Russia definitely needs immigrants,” Volkov said, “but ones who receive work permits and pay taxes.”

Edited February 19 by peak4

[melthebell]

The prison where he was being held doesnt seem too secure, the propaganda coming out of Russia straight away is that the West killed him to make Russia look bad. and now according to this video (sorry its The Scum) his body has been sneaked out and taken away.

 

[Anna B]

His wife is vowing to carry on the fight.

One seriously brave Lady.

[cressida]

After recovering in Germany,  knowing what could happen he should have stayed there until events turned in his favour.

[Organgrinder]

44 minutes ago, Anna B said:

His wife is vowing to carry on the fight.

One seriously brave Lady.

The courage which both of them have displayed are a credit to them and shows,  up cowardly Putin's yellow streak.

 

[Anna B]

5 hours ago, cressida said:

After recovering in Germany,  knowing what could happen he should have stayed there until events turned in his favour.

Without people like Navalny fighting the cause, things are unlikely to 'turn in his favour.'

Various brave people have been trying for years to change things. He knew how perilous it was and still did it. 

His wiefe, it seems, is made of the same stuff, and is carrying on where he left off. A very brave couple. I hope they succeed in the end, but it may never happen.

 

Makes me glad to live in Britain where we can moan about the government to our hearts content.

That said, we also must beware. As our Political Parties become more alike and fail to represent the majority of the electorate we also have a problem developing at the heart of democracy.

And our rights to protest are also being steadily dismantled.... 

[Anna B]

2 minutes ago, Anna B said:

Without people like Navalny fighting the cause, things are unlikely to 'turn in his favour.'

Various brave people have been trying for years to change things. He knew how perilous it was and still did it. 

His wife, it seems, is made of the same stuff, and is carrying on where he left off. A very brave couple. I hope they succeed in the end, but it may never happen.

 

Makes me glad to live in Britain where we can moan about the government to our hearts content.

That said, we also must beware. As our Political Parties become more alike and fail to represent the majority of the electorate we also have a problem developing at the heart of democracy.

And our rights to protest are also being steadily dismantled.... 

 

[Anna B]

5 minutes ago, Anna B said: