DRENCH PUTIN WITH POISON ALONG WITH HIS WHORES LIVING IN MONACO!
Navalny dead in the Gulag and Putin crosses a line
Less than a week after Russian President Vladimir Putin put on an intelligent, reasonable, face for visiting American journalist Tucker Carlson, the bloodsoaked visage of a Russian boyar or vozhd appeared, with a report from Russian officials that top dissident Alexei Navalny was dead in an Arctic prison.
According to the Associated Press:
Alexei Navalny, the fiercest foe of Russian President Vladimir Putin who crusaded against official corruption and staged massive anti-Kremlin protests, died in prison Friday, Russian authorities said.
Dissidents said they didn't believe it because nothing the Russian government says is to be believed.
But it doesn't help the Russian government any to report this, given the global condemnation that has followed. Joe Biden, for one, vowed "devastating consequences" for Putin in 2021 were Navalny to die in prison.
For a lot of us, there was faint hope that Navalny's high profile would keep him alive, somehow, despite the terrible conditions he was enduring in the GULag-like prison camp 40 miles north of the Arctic Circle in the dreaded Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug, which one of the world's coldest places.
It didn't.
That he did die is almost unprecedented.
Not even the Soviets killed off Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn when he was the biggest thorn in their side, winning the Nobel prize for literature for his mighty GULag Archipelago as well as the rest of the body of his work.
Up until now, modern dictators have always kept the "big" dissident alive if in horrific prison conditions. They killed the little dissidents, but not the really big ones.
The South Africans, after all, never killed dissident Nelson Mandela. The Chicoms never killed Harry Wu. The Polish communist regime never killed Lech Walesa. The Czechs never killed Vaclav Havel. The Burmese tinpot junta never killed Daw Aung San Kyi. The Castroite Cubans never killed Huber Matos, although they did murder Oswaldo Paya. Perhaps they thought he was small. The broad pattern is that if a dissident is big enough, and visible enough, and important enough, they'll stuff him away in a box, but they won't kill.
Putin, who recently appears to have blown away a disloyal mercenary ally, the Wagner Group's Yevgeny Prigozhin, from an airplane in the sky over Russia, is different.
He's bold, he acts, and when he's asked questions, he just deflects and smiles. Everyone knows what he does and he seems pretty comfortable knowing that everyone knows.
He is also believed to have assassinated top dissident political rival Boris Nemtsov right there in Red Square in a 2015 gunshot assassination. Nobody behind the act was caught, though a few Chechen triggermen were arrested.
He will take out the Big Dissident.
And that creates a different kind of terrain for the world's dissidents in the world's dictatorships.
Tucker Carlson's interview with Putin was useful, so there's no need to criticize him for it, but it didn't give a complete picture of the Russian leader.
Since Putin doesn't care if anyone is upset about the political killings that go on his country (and beyond), it's disturbing to think of other innocent people in his prisons, such as poor Evan Gershkovich of the Wall Street Journal, who has been unjustly detained by Putin's henchmen.
According to the Journal:
Evan has been in Russia’s notorious Lefortovo prison since March 2023, largely cut off from the world. He spends 90% of his day in a small cell. The State Department has declared Evan wrongfully detained and President Biden has promised his family he would bring Evan home. A Russian court on Nov. 28 extended his pre-trial detention for another two months. It is unclear when he will face trial.
Is he safe? Does Putin fear Joe Biden after he just crapped out on his threat of "devastating consequences" for Putin if Navalny died in prison? Biden also said that he was "serious" about a prisoner swap and Putin told Tucker Carlson he was open to one.
No sign of Biden on that one and Evan's still there.
I think there's a lot of reason for concern for him.
The other two I am worried about are in Venezuela, Russia's top ally, where Maria Corina Machado, the big dissident there, has just been disqualified from her presidential run and is subject to constant threats and government goon violence.
There's also a top human rights activist named Rocio San Miguel, who was snatched off the street by the Maduro dictatorship's goons and has since "disappeared," and so has her family.
This is terrible, scary, stuff in itself but now that Putin's act has lowered the bar on dictator behavior Maduro is perfectly capable of imitating him.
I don't know how any of these democracy campaigners take it.
For years, I read Navalny's blog on Russian corruption and was astonished at his courage in writing what he did. He was eccentric, humorous, and some of his views on things wrong. He also didn't seem particularly presidential, a lot of people called him 'crazy.' After that, he was poisoned, he ended up in Germany for recovery, and then he told 60 Minutes he was going back to Russia, again, a man of incredible courage. Now Putin has done his worst and yes, he's responsible -- he didn't have to have him arrested and he certainly didn't have to stick him in Russia's worst GULag if he wanted him alive. That he ended up there pretty well offered a suggestion of what he had in store for him. Navalny's legal team said he looked healthy enough two days ago for a court appearance, so his sudden death sounds like it may have been a homicide.
Bill Browder, a former hedge fund manager who has crossed with Putin in the past and described his ordeal in his riveting book, Red Notice, watched his employee, named Sergei Magnitsky (of the Magnitsky Act) slowly get murdered in Putin's prisons.
He now describes what is likely to follow after this:
It's outrageous. And it's made possible by weak U.S. leadership against Putin's tyranny, which knows it has little to fear as had been when Donald Trump was president.
A couple days ago, Vladimir Putin said it was "better" for Russia with Joe Biden in the U.S. presidency.
Then the top dissident was eliminated.
Now we know why.
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Putin Critic, Russian Opposition Leader Alexi Navalny Dies in Prison
The Russian prison service has said Alexi Navalny “fainted and died quickly”, the death of the political prisoner, opposition leader, and critic of the Russian President already being called a “political assassination”.
Anti-corruption campaigner and opposition party leader Alexi Navalny, who had previously survived a poisoning attempt by the infamous Russian nerve agent Novichok in 2020 and who has spent years in prison, has died, Russia says. A press release from a Russian state media outlet states President Putin has been informed of the death, which is said to have happened today.
At the time of his death, Navalny was serving a 19-year prison sentence at an Arctic penal colony. Navalny had been branded a “terrorist and extremist” by the Russian government and convicted of several crimes, which he maintained were hollow and politically motivated.
Britain’s The Guardian notes his death “is likely to be seen as a political assassination attributable to Vladimir Putin”.
The prison service said Navalny “felt unwell after a walk” and “fainted and died quickly”. Medical workers were called and resucitation was attempted, without success, they said. They claimed Navalny had no prior health complaints and asserted an investigation would take place into the cause of death.
A nationalist, Navalny believed the best way to revive a strong Russia was by fighting economic and political corruption, which put him on a collision course with Vladimir Putin.
Criticism of Russia’s treatment of Navalny has poured in today. US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said the death “only underscores the weakness and rot at the heart of the system that Putin has built”, saying Russia is responsible. Britain’s Foreign Secretary Lord Cameron said the West should hold Putin accountable for the death, and that there should be consequences.
Russia itself has scoffed at the suggestions it was in any way responsible for the death of the political prisoner, their foreign affairs spokesman Maria Zakharova noting the claims of an assassination exposed foreign prejudice against Russia. She said despite a forensic examination not yet having taken place, Western leaders had already leaped to conclusions.
This story is developing, more follows.
TOPSHOT – Opposition leader Alexei Navalny appears on a screen set up at a courtroom of the Moscow City Court via a video link from his prison colony during a hearing of an appeal against his nine-year prison sentence he was handed in March after being found guilty of embezzlement and contempt of court, in Moscow on May 17, 2022. Alexei Navalny’s hearing comes as Russian authorities seek to silence remaining government critics and Moscow pushes on with its military campaign in neighbouring Ukraine, with thousands killed and some 10 million displaced. He is already serving two-and-a-half years in a prison some 100 kilometres (60 miles) east of Moscow for violating parole on old fraud charges. If his new sentence comes into force, the 45-year-old opposition politician will be transferred to a strict-regime penal colony, which will place him in much harsher conditions. The new sentence will replace the old one — that he was handed in February last year — meaning Navalny will remain behind bars for another eight years. (Photo by Kirill KUDRYAVTSEV / AFP) (Photo by KIRILL KUDRYAVTSEV/AFP via Getty Images)
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