A Russian " " court " " on Friday issued its verdict in a new case against jailed opposition leader Alexey Navalny, convicting the politician of promoting “extremism” and extending his time in prison by 19 years, according to Russian state media and his own team.
Tiny correction in the interest of accuracy: He was sentenced to 10 more years, for 19 remaining years total.
And he’ll probably get a few more added on top, this is a Myanmar thing where they’ll just either make him disappear or perpetually keep him imprisoned of course.
Navalny advised Ukrainians not to deceive themselves: “Crimea will remain part of Russia and will never become part of Ukraine again in the foreseeable future”.
He also said that when he becomes president of the Russian Federation, he will not return the semi-island to Kyiv: “Crimea is what, a sandwich with sausage to be returned here and there?”, - Navalny asked.
Fuck Putin, fuck Navalny & fuck Russia in general.
I think him being concerned with the economics of a war rather than the ethics of it are telling. However here is a quote from Navalny in March. Seems like he is somewhat on a middle ground. Not sure what to think of him.
Navalny wrote that Ukraine’s borders are “similar to Russia’s—[they were] internationally recognized and defined in 1991.” All of the areas of Ukraine that the Kremlin has supposedly “annexed” are, by right and by law, still Ukrainian, including Crimea.Mar 2, 2023
And in 2014 he said:
Navalny advised Ukrainians not to deceive themselves: “Crimea will remain part of Russia and will never become part of Ukraine again in the foreseeable future”.
He also said that when he becomes president of the Russian Federation, he will not return the semi-island to Kyiv: “Crimea is what, a sandwich with sausage to be returned here and there?”, - Navalny asked.
Difficult to feel sympathetic towards someone who suggests annexed land land can be taken at will. But also hard to deny the punishments he faces from Putin are extremely heavy handed. Russia really needs a revolution that puts in place people who actually want to serve the people and become a productive democracy.
Revolutions never do that, because they’re started by wannabe-dictators or the military.
Uh that seems like a pretty absolutist world view. You can simultaneously think that the invasion of Ukraine is terrible, and care that a Russian man is being jailed for nearly twenty years by a kangaroo court.
He’s a Russian politician, I could care less about what happens to him, especially after reading his previous views on Crimea.
I could care less
Ah so you do care at least a little.
I hate these Word Crimes!
To jail. Now!
Wait, that’s not a sing lyric…
I’m not calling you a liar, but maybe misinformed.
Russia’s prominent jailed opposition figure Alexei Navalny has lost an appeal against a nine-year prison term, but not before launching a scathing attack on the war in Ukraine.
Condemning Vladimir Putin’s war as stupid, he said it was “like your courts, built entirely on lies”.“You will suffer a historic defeat in this stupid war that you started. It has no purpose or meaning. Why are we fighting a war?” he said.
He’s against it now because it’s showing Russia as the alcoholic morons they are.
He said all that stuff in court right after the start of the war. Like, there are transcripts of it.
He supported the 2014 invasion, not the 2022 invasion. So he’s still garbage. He just stinks less.
He can still be much better than Putin and support Crimea 2014. Not a good option, but a less bad one, and one that is dangerous to Putin.
I think Navalny shouldn’t be in jail and is better than Putin. But he’s still a piece of Russian garbage.
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He’s better than Putin in that a turd sandwich is better than a firehose full of raw sewage to the face
But honestly, if someone put him in power, I’m 50/50 over whether he would just become the next Russian dictator
50/50? I feel like there’s a 90% chance they will be and I think that’s a conservative estimate.
While the second quote is more telling, the first one is misleading. The only reason Ukraine has a shot at taking Crimea back is because Russia invaded.
There was just no hope for Ukraine to retake it by force, and Russia under putin would never give it back voluntarily. Even not under Putin, the opinion would be such that this would be a difficult politically speaking. That’s what Navalny was commenting on with this quote.
Do you have a source?
At least a quick search on my side does not bring up anything in support of your statement.Edited post.
Yet we won’t hear about people like Ousmane Sonko and so many more, including in Ukraine, just today Saïd Boukioud was condemned to 5 years of jail in Morocco, and Julian Assange has been persecuted for more than a decade for wanting to keep us accountable/transparent(, as well as at least dozens of whistleblowers). Piotr Pavlenski was celebrated by french medias when he denounced the russian “regime”, but condemned by the same medias when he did the same things in France. We simply wouldn’t hear&support A.Navalny if Russia was our ally, thats all.
Just in(, an hour ago) : Imran Khan has been condemned to three years of jail ! Will you complain ?Damn shame. He would have been one hell of an upgrade over Putin.
Lol you’re brain damaged.
Putin is a ticking time bomb. Replacing him with anyone even moderately more amenable would be an improvement.
