Tomi on 20/2/2024 at 15:47
It feels a bit wrong to mourn the death of a character like Navalnyi, someone who I would most likely despise under "normal circumstances". However, it says a lot about modern Russia when the western media and leaders praise him and his actions. I got to admit that returning to Russia was a ballsy move from Navalnyi, and I hope that his sacrifice was not in vain. Right now things are looking pretty damn grim over there, but I hope that Navalnyi's death ignites that last sparkle of humanity and hope instead of extinguishing it. I hope that in the not too distant future Vladimir gets to have a nice little polonium tea party with his besties, even though there's absolutely no guarantee that it'd make things any better. It's all kinda depressing really. :(
Out of all the ballsy things that Navalnyi did, (
https://meduza.io/en/feature/2021/02/02/vladimir-the-poisoner) him mocking Putin and calling him the Underpants Poisoner in his speech to the court in 2021 is perhaps my favourite:
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He’ll go down in history as nothing but a poisoner. We all remember Alexander the Liberator and Yaroslav the Wise. Well, now we’ll have Vladimir the Underpants Poisoner.
lowenz on 20/2/2024 at 16:54
Yeah, Navalny is really a strange character when you look to ALL his political arc (I mean, like Dugin in the '90s he got some nazi identitarian fascination.....a real one, not the ukronazi bullshit around Bandera sanctification - of course i would prefer Machno to Bandera every time but you can't use Machno speaking to a "nation" from the state position :D ).
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https://unherd.com/newsroom/alexei-navalny-is-no-liberal-hero/)
DuatDweller on 20/2/2024 at 23:41
Jimmy Hoffa, Amelia Earhard, and now Alexei Navalny, just where they might be.
Azaran on 21/2/2024 at 15:58
It blows my mind that the Dictator is enmeshed in a disastrous war and his country is on the brink of collapse. Yet, he still has the resources to (
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-68337794) track down enemies overseas and have them eliminated
DuatDweller on 22/2/2024 at 12:23
Competition? We don't need no stinking competition!
(
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2024_Russian_presidential_election)
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In November 2023, former member of the State Duma Boris Nadezhdin became the first person backed by a registered political party to announce his candidacy, running on an anti-war platform. He was followed by incumbent and independent candidate Vladimir Putin in December 2023, who is eligible to seek re-election as a result of 2020 constitutional amendments. Later the same month, Leonid Slutsky of the LDPR, Nikolay Kharitonov of the Communist Party, Vladislav Davankov of New People, Sergey Malinkovich of Communists of Russia and others announced their candidacies.
On 8 February 2024, the only anti-war candidate Boris Nadezhdin was barred from running against Putin in the election during the CEC's session due to alleged irregularities in the signatures of voters supporting his candidacy. Malinkovich was also disqualified for the same reason, leading to just four candidates being left on the ballot.
lowenz on 22/2/2024 at 13:29
The "electoral competition" is just a ruse when we talk about state REAL affairs like a war/expansion (or defense in UKraine, it's a state too).
People seem don't undestand how the state REALLY works.
Cipheron on 22/2/2024 at 13:32
They probably want to leave enough other candidates on the ballot, such that the rival candidates will split the anti-Putin vote.
lowenz on 22/2/2024 at 14:15
The "anti-Putin" vote is NOT "anti-imperialism" vote, that's the MAIN problem, the same of Navalny NOT being the "western guy" as our media depicts him and that's an assist to Putin (to depict him as a "traitor" of "rusky mir"), because the not-so-young AND now the very-young russian people share the same "anti-liberal values" - just remember that Putin is perceived as "liberal-center" grandpa and not an hawk like Žirinovskij - Žirinovskij too called himself a "liberal" in constrast to communists or tsarists still existing nowdays - and I'm talking about someone plain like Pinochet
The only "freedom" for guys like this is the "freedom of property" and nothing else, never forget this. And it's why GOP nuts love Russia so much.
Starker on 23/2/2024 at 06:07
Welcome to (
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_world) Russki Mir:
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https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/russian-troops-raped-tortured-children-ukraine-un-panel-says-rcna49168)
Russian troops have raped and tortured children in Ukraine, carried out a “large number” of executions and committed other war crimes, according to a United Nations investigation by legal experts.
Set up by the U.N. to probe the conduct of the war, the Independent International Commission of Inquiry reported its chilling findings Friday in Geneva, describing a long list of abuses and atrocities in four regions.
“Based on the evidence gathered by the commission, it has concluded that war crimes have been committed in Ukraine,” Erik Mose, the chairman of the three-member commission, told the U.N. Human Rights Council.
Mose, a Norwegian judge, said the commission has documented cases in which children have been "raped, tortured and unlawfully confined."
“There are examples of cases where relatives were forced to witness the crimes," he added. "In the cases we have investigated, the age of victims of sexual and gendered-based violence ranged from 4 to 82 years."
Children also have been killed and wounded in “indiscriminate attacks” by Russian forces using explosive weapons, he said.
Mose said that he and his colleagues “were struck by the large number of executions in the areas that we visited.”
The commission is investigating executions in 16 towns and settlements and has “credible allegations regarding many more cases of executions, which we are documenting further,” he said.
The execution cases often featured “the prior detention of the victims as well as visible signs of executions on bodies, such as hands tied behind backs, gunshot wounds to the head, and slit throats,” according to Mose.
For Ukrainians who were unlawfully detained, witnesses “provided us with consistent accounts of ill-treatment and torture,” he said.
The update from the commission follows other allegations of war crimes from international human rights groups, Western governments and Ukrainian authorities, including the recent discovery of a mass burial site in the eastern town of Izyum.
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