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Blogger, anti-corruption lawyer and organizer of the largest anti-government protests since the collapse of the USSR. Alexey Navalnyenemy number one of the Russian president, Vladimir Putindied today in
Blogger, anti-corruption lawyer and organizer of the largest anti-government protests since the collapse of the USSR. Alexey Navalnyenemy number one of the Russian president, Vladimir Putindied today in prison.
“Vladimir the poisoner” is what Navalny called the Kremlin chief in February 2021 during the first of his trials, political trials that were criticized by the Russian opposition and the West.
This was the beacon of the first free generation in the history of Russia. He Kremlin He was so aware of this that, at the height of the military campaign in Ukraine, Russian justice handed down his final sentence of almost 30 years in prison.
Prison did not stop Navalny from openly condemning what he called “criminal war” in Ukrainethe only purpose of which, according to the opponent, is to allow Putin to “retain power.”
He also criticized the partial mobilization announced by the head of the Kremlin, the purpose of which will be to “involve the largest number of people” in the crime and “stain hundreds of thousands of people with blood.”
Moreover, he declared that “Putin is losing” and predicted “a huge number of deaths (…) in a crushing war.”
He took advantage of the unpopularity of the conflict to reinvigorate his political movement, banned as “extremist”, under the slogan “No war, no mobilization, freedom for Navalny“.
Newbie and jail time
The Kremlin’s patience with Navalny ended in August 2020. Then, according to the extra-parliamentary opposition, the authorities said that enough was enough and decided to eliminate the Russian politician who had the greatest authority in the West.
“Putin ordered my murder,” Navalny said after recovering in Germany after poisoning with a toxic substance of the Novichok family.
A secret intelligence operation went horribly wrong, and Navalny returned to Russia in mid-January 2021, like a phoenix, to challenge the Russian leader.
But the Kremlin was waiting for him. Authorities took advantage of his refusal to appear before authorities on an old criminal case to send him to prison.
Thus, Putin got rid of another enemy, as happened with the richest man in Russia. Mikhail Khodorkovskyimprisoned in Siberia (2003), or opponent Boris Nemtsov, killed in front of the Kremlin in 2015.
Navalny turned out to be the opponent with the largest electoral hookbut after being the victim of an assassination attempt by the Federal Security Service (FSB), he became a celebrity abroad.
Previously, such an honor as poisoning was granted almost exclusively to former FSB spies who defected to the enemy, like Skripal or Litvinenko.
Tsar of Social Media
Navalny, an expert in the use of social networks, was already preparing his revenge, which was expressed in three videos compromising the Kremlin.
With the help of Bellingcat and a number of Western media, he managed to collect data that, according to the politician, proved the involvement of the FSB in his assassination attempt.
It did not stop there, but included a telephone conversation with one of the alleged participants in the secret operation, who admitted that his accomplices sprayed Novichok on the enemy’s underwear.
The latest poisoned gift from a Kremlin opponent was a video called “Putin’s Palaceabout the mansion that the president’s friends built for him on the Black Sea coast and that one of his best friends, businessman Arkady Rotenberg, later admitted that it belongs to him.
All this not only exposed the FSB and Putin, but was seen by more than 150 million people, a figure that contrasts with the seven million who watched the president’s annual press conference on the same days.
Russia without Putin
It all started in the liberal Yabloko party, from where Navalny was expelled for his nationalist ideas. But his ostracism will be short-lived, as in the 2011 parliamentary elections he managed to organize the largest anti-government protests since the collapse of the USSR under the war cry of “Russia without Putin.”
The following year he made a big step into politics by introducing his candidacy for elections to the Moscow City Hall, where he received almost a third of the votes, which is an unprecedented achievement for the extra-parliamentary opposition.
The hostility of Putin, who has never referred to him by name, stems from numerous instances in which an opponent has exposed the shame of Kremlin allies, whom he points an accusing finger at on uncensored social media.
There were no taboos for the Kremlin whip when it came to exposing government corruption. Be the prime minister Dmitry Medvedevthe president of parliament or a state bank, the attorney general, or the wife of the president’s press secretary.
The leader of the opposition was no longer just a nuisance, but a threat. He has since been sentenced to prison for allegedly economic crimeswho disqualified him as a Kremlin candidate and was physically attacked several times
Even from behind bars, he manages to influence elections through his Smart Voting program, which consists of choosing among candidates with the greatest chance of unseating the Kremlin party candidate.
Shortly after Navalny called for voting for any candidate other than Putin in next March’s presidential elections, he was secretly transferred to an Arctic prison, where he died today.
EFE
Source: Aristegui Noticias
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