Alexey Navalny died today in an Arctic prison
a year ago
🇷🇺Russian🇷🇺 opposition figure Alexey Navalny died today in an Arctic prison at age 47.
Here are some assorted news articles about his death:
AP: https://apnews.com/article/russia-n.....9b2cc73ece0bae
AP: https://apnews.com/live/alexei-nava.....russia-updates <live updates>
ABC: https://abcnews.go.com/Internationa.....y?id=107286433
BBC: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-68315943
BBC: https://www.bbc.com/news/live/world-68316979 <live updates>
CNN: https://www.cnn.com/europe/live-new.....-24/index.html <live updates>
NPR: https://www.npr.org/2024/02/16/1232.....-putin-critics
Reuters: https://www.reuters.com/world/europ.....ce-2024-02-16/
The following is taken from here:
In one of Alexey Navalny’s final court appearances before his death, he urged prison service workers to vote against Russian President Vladimir Putin.
Video of his February 8 appearance was shared by Navalny’s supporters at the time.
"I have a suggestion: to vote for any candidate other than Putin. In order to vote against Putin, you just need to vote for any other candidate," Navalny said.
“I made a list of people I talk to and took upon myself, as my socialist duty, to give this recommendation for each one of them. And that is why I give it to you. And I hope you will follow it.”
See my Journal https://www.furaffinity.net/journal/10571064/ -- Acknowledging the brave ones
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Here are some assorted news articles about his death:
AP: https://apnews.com/article/russia-n.....9b2cc73ece0bae
AP: https://apnews.com/live/alexei-nava.....russia-updates <live updates>
ABC: https://abcnews.go.com/Internationa.....y?id=107286433
BBC: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-68315943
BBC: https://www.bbc.com/news/live/world-68316979 <live updates>
CNN: https://www.cnn.com/europe/live-new.....-24/index.html <live updates>
NPR: https://www.npr.org/2024/02/16/1232.....-putin-critics
Reuters: https://www.reuters.com/world/europ.....ce-2024-02-16/
The following is taken from here:
In one of Alexey Navalny’s final court appearances before his death, he urged prison service workers to vote against Russian President Vladimir Putin.
Video of his February 8 appearance was shared by Navalny’s supporters at the time.
"I have a suggestion: to vote for any candidate other than Putin. In order to vote against Putin, you just need to vote for any other candidate," Navalny said.
“I made a list of people I talk to and took upon myself, as my socialist duty, to give this recommendation for each one of them. And that is why I give it to you. And I hope you will follow it.”
See my Journal https://www.furaffinity.net/journal/10571064/ -- Acknowledging the brave ones
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It’s a loss for the whole world, not just Russia
His participation in Russian marches with racist slogans "Russia for Russians" and "Crimea is not a sandwich" showed his true face long before all this.
Mmh
If there is a silver lining to this, it's that this came back to bite Putin and his Kremlin cronies quite hard. And the recent detaining and arresting of anti-war activists have also put Putin in the hot-seat as well.
Over the last few weeks, many Russians started multiple protests in the wake of Navalny's death. Some of those protests ranged from hundreds to THOUSANDS.
At this point, I wouldn't be surprised if Russia has civil war in the near future. It's obviously been far too long that Russia has been needing a change in leadership.