Russian Opposition Leader and Putin critic Alexei Navalny in a Coma

shogun · Postby **shogun** » August 24th, 2020, 12:22 am

Anyone following this? Kinda old news now, but interesting nonetheless.

VexXx Dogg · Postby **VexXx Dogg** » August 24th, 2020, 9:51 am

Can't have any critics if they don't exist.

shogun · Postby **shogun** » January 25th, 2021, 6:36 am

They must have a separate cell for this dude's cajones, right?

Navalny, anticipating arrest, planned protests to force Kremlin to release him, ally says

MOSCOW (Reuters) - Before he returned to Russia, opposition politician Alexei Navalny and his supporters had anticipated he would be arrested and planned to force the Kremlin to release him by staging repeated protests, a close ally has said.

Navalny, President Vladimir Putin’s most prominent critic, was detained on Sunday after flying home for the first time since being poisoned with what the West says was a military-grade nerve agent that Navalny says was applied to his underpants by state security agents.

The 44-year-old lawyer, now in a notorious Moscow prison pending the outcome of four legal matters he says are all trumped up, accuses Putin of ordering his attempted murder. Putin has dismissed that, alleging Navalny is part of a U.S.-backed dirty tricks campaign to discredit him.

Navalny’s allies plan nationwide protests on Saturday to try to force the Kremlin to order his release, a high-stakes test of his support in the depths of winter during a pandemic.

Leonid Volkov, a close Navalny ally, told Reuters that the opposition plan also involves releasing video investigations into Putin and his allies, such as one on Tuesday about an opulent palace they alleged belonged to Putin, which the Kremlin denied. It has been watched 53 million times online.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-russ ... SKBN29R0RX

88sins · Postby **88sins** » January 25th, 2021, 7:13 am

They go kill that man

pugboy · Postby **pugboy** » January 25th, 2021, 7:31 am

rather stupid to go back

Dizzy28 · Postby **Dizzy28** » January 25th, 2021, 8:12 am

pugboy wrote:rather stupid to go back

The price of patriotism rather steep.
He can watch Russia burn from the outside or he can try and fix it from the inside

pugboy · Postby **pugboy** » January 25th, 2021, 8:19 am

like the kashoggi chap who went to his embassy
and end up sawn up

Dizzy28 wrote:
pugboy wrote:rather stupid to go back

The price of patriotism rather steep.
He can watch Russia burn from the outside or he can try and fix it from the inside

VexXx Dogg · Postby **VexXx Dogg** » January 25th, 2021, 9:17 am

Dizzy28 wrote:
pugboy wrote:rather stupid to go back

The price of patriotism rather steep.
He can watch Russia burn from the outside or he can try and fix it from the inside

Takes a different kinda spine to tackle that mountain

Dizzy28 · Postby **Dizzy28** » January 25th, 2021, 9:37 am

VexXx Dogg wrote:
Dizzy28 wrote:
pugboy wrote:rather stupid to go back

The price of patriotism rather steep.
He can watch Russia burn from the outside or he can try and fix it from the inside

Takes a different kinda spine to tackle that mountain

Some Russians have that spine, -52 Celsius yunno!!!

VexXx Dogg · Postby **VexXx Dogg** » January 25th, 2021, 9:42 am

Roses are red
Violets are blue
In soviet russia
Putin silences you

teems1 · Postby **teems1** » January 25th, 2021, 9:46 am

Russians are a strange bunch.

They have no problem outsting their leader in violent revolution, but then they put the same type of leader back in power.

It's like a victim of domestic violence who always goes back to the abuser.

88sins · Postby **88sins** » January 25th, 2021, 10:34 am

teems1 wrote:Russians are a strange bunch.

They have no problem outsting their leader in violent revolution, but then they put the same type of leader back in power.

It's like a victim of domestic violence who always goes back to the abuser.

Absolute power corrupts absolutely

Les Bain · Postby **Les Bain** » January 25th, 2021, 12:09 pm

Wonder if the American Freedums crowd pay attention to international news? While they claiming creeping fascism and erosion of their civil liberties during Covid, you have this Russian situation playing out.
3,000 people arrested at a protest in support of a soon to be dead opposition leader sure sounds like less liberties than a Capitol insurgent whining the jail doesn't have serve organic meals.

88sins · Postby **88sins** » January 25th, 2021, 2:18 pm

Les Bain wrote:Wonder if the American Freedums crowd pay attention to international news? While they claiming creeping fascism and erosion of their civil liberties during Covid, you have this Russian situation playing out.
3,000 people arrested at a protest in support of a soon to be dead opposition leader sure sounds like less liberties than a Capitol insurgent whining the jail doesn't have serve organic meals.

you expect better from a nation of idiots and pansies?

shogun · Postby **shogun** » January 25th, 2021, 11:28 pm

Dizzy28 wrote:Some Russians have that spine, -52 Celsius yunno!!!

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That spine and ample vodka. Kudos to them though. -52 °C? Christ.

Navanly being held at the notorious 'Sailor's Silence' prison. You just know they creating a situation for his not making it out plausible.