This is the best summary I could come up with:
Russian judges have halted new criminal proceedings for the jailed opposition leader Alexei Navalny as supporters say he has not contacted his lawyers in nearly two weeks and a UN official has said his absence amounted to a “forced disappearance”.
Courts halted seven judicial hearings on Monday “until [Navalny’s] whereabouts [is] established”, his lawyers said, further raising concerns that the Kremlin critic could be muzzled or even killed as Vladimir Putin has announced plans to extend his rule for a fifth presidential term.
Kira Yarmysh, an aide to Navalny, said his team had sent requests to nearly 200 Russian pre-trial detention centres searching for more information on the missing opposition leader but had not been able to find him.
The Kremlin has not answered questions on Navalny’s whereabouts, with Putin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov saying his team had “neither the intention nor the ability to track the fate of prisoners.”
Mr Navalny’s lawyers, who have been prevented from meeting him since 6 December, were told by the court that their client is no longer held in the Vladimir region, without providing any further details,” Katzarova said.
Navalny’s supporters have launched an anti-Putin guerrilla campaign including billboards in Moscow, St Petersburg and Novosibirsk with a QR-code linking to a website that calls for Putin critics to use nonviolent “partisan” tactics to voice their dissent.
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Any possibillity this could be the final spark before the powder keg detonates?
It’s doubtful.
I wish he stayed in Germany, why the hell did he return?
Hard to effect positive change in a country you’re not in
People who have such a sense of mission and put themselves on the line like that are so amazing to me, I spent enough time feeling like I was in prison that I always wanted to be free and ok as soon as I could contrive that
There has been so many “final” sparks, i lost hope already
Sorry internet friend 😢 Do you live there or are you referring more to it like I am?
A regime like Putin’s is stable until it suddenly is not. Russia has a lot of dark times ahead of it.
Unlike the US, right?
I’ll never understand why he intentionally let himself be captured by Russia. The outcome was inevitable.
Because is so notorious because he was willing to selflessly put himself in the frontline to prove a point.
That doesn’t make any sense, but okay.
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Hopefully he disappeared because someone thinks he might make for a good replacement of someone in the future, but more likely they finally tortured him to death and destroyed his body so he can’t become a martyr.
Be careful what you wish for, he’s more hard line than Putin. War in Ukraine? He thinks Russia isn’t sending enough troops, and he wants all of Ukraine. Way worse for LGBTQ+ rights than Putin, and that’s not easy to do. He almost makes Putin look like a human rights activist.
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