"I will spend the rest of my life in prison and die here," wrote Navalny in his upcoming posthumous memoir titled "Patriot", which this week had excerpts published in the new yorker

Patriot? Wow!

source https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cj6eppg77geo

bbc article from 2021 about navalny being a fascist (but its complicated!) https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-56181084

Amnesty International has stripped the Russian opposition politician Alexei Navalny of his "prisoner of conscience" status after it says it was "bombarded" with complaints highlighting xenophobic comments that he has made in the past and not renounced.

newyorker article from 2021 about navalny being a fascist (but its so complicated!) https://archive.md/EOb48

According to Volkov, Navalny now regrets making the 2007 video in which he advocated for deporting Central Asian migrants, but he has not deleted it from YouTube “because it’s a historical fact.”

obviously I shouldnt be surprised about this kind of thing, especially from publications that were around to talk about sHitler caring about germany or whatever

  • WeedReference420 [he/him, they/them]
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    6 days ago

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    Redditors getting super emotional about him watching Rick and Morty on the plane back to Russia lives in my head rent free

  • Awoo [she/her]
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    6 days ago

    I've always detested the way the West painted Navalny as if he's the most prominent opposition in Russia when the communist party is the largest opposition party. We might have our problems with it but it's real.

    Also Navalny supported Crimean referendum on being part of Russia and Donbas too. He argued westerners were being racist to russians. The liberals forget about all this under the banner of "he has to do that to remain popular" because he was still willing to be a western puppet.

    • Redcuban1959 [any]
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      6 days ago

      I've always detested the way the West painted Navalny as if he's the most prominent opposition in Russia when the communist party is the largest opposition party. We might have our problems with it but it's real.

      Gennady Zyuganov was literally the only candidate to contest a run-off election in Russia and almost beat Yeltsin, had it not been for Western interference.

      By early 1996, Yeltsin's public approval was so poor that he was polling at fifth place among presidential candidates, with only 8 percent support, while CPRF leader Gennady Zyuganov was in the lead with 21 percent support. When Zyuganov showed up at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, in February 1996, many Western leaders and the international media were eager to see him, and treated him with regards to believing that he would likely be the next president of Russia.

  • vegeta1 [none/use name]
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    6 days ago

    I'll say the same thing i said for that nazi that fell of the mountain. Unlimited dancing lobsters on this fool. They can write all the dear diary ass puff pieces on this piece of shit it won't bring him back. Seethe

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  • Hexamerous [none/use name]
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    6 days ago

    Amnesty International has stripped the Russian opposition politician Alexei Navalny of his "prisoner of conscience" status after it says it was "bombarded" with complaints

    No sympathy for this guy, but it's funny how amnesty have worthy and unworthy "prisoner of conscience" and not, you know, based on some firm principle no matter their political views. I guess they have to put a bunch of prisoners locked up in the west on the list too if that were the case.

    • Awoo [she/her]
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      6 days ago

      Vibes-based determination of political prisoners.

      The vibes were bad when they got a lot of letters.

  • BeamBrain [he/him]
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    6 days ago

    "Sure is weird how we end up with all these Nazis in our corner. Probably doesn't mean anything, though."

  • Rod_Blagojevic [none/use name]
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    6 days ago

    Russia's most prominent opposition leader...

    I'm pretty sure this is objectively untrue and communist opposition was always several times more prominent. It's Saturday morning. I don't feel like looking up the polling numbers.

  • robinnist
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    6 days ago

    Navalny a Neo-Nazi? Um it’s all Russian propaganda, and yes the propaganda is true but that’s beside the point!!

  • TheLastHero [none/use name]
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    6 days ago

    jagoff Russian government eats chumpz like him for breakfast. God the CIA wanted their new Solzhenitsyn so bad but no matter how much they pushed no one care about this loser

  • Redcuban1959 [any]
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    6 days ago

    Was Navalny even relevant in Russia? Theres no way he was more popular than Gennady Zyuganov and Vladimir Zhirinovsky.

  • CarbonScored [any]
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    5 days ago

    I never quite understood how even Libs criticise Russia for this one, as if Western countries would kindly treat people whose stated goal is to destabilise and replace the government while openly collaborating with foreign powers. We would also designate them a terrorist/treasonous spy and imprison them until they died.

  • infuziSporg [e/em/eir]
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    6 days ago

    Honestly, though, Zhirinovsky was just as bad.

    For the past 30 years all of Russian politics has been a spectrum of conservatism, jingoism, and "traditional values".