Alexei Navalny in Berlin in 2020, surrounded by his spouse and two kids.
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Alexei Navalny in Berlin in 2020, surrounded by his spouse and two kids.
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Perhaps the airplane crash wherein Yevgeny Prigozhin died final summer season, after he led an rebellion towards Vadimir Putin, actually was an accident.
Perhaps Boris Nemtsov being shot to loss of life in February 2015, simply two days earlier than he was to steer an opposition rally in Moscow, was a random crime.
Perhaps Sergei Magnitsky’s loss of life in jail, after he’d helped uncover tax fraud within the Russian authorities, actually was simply the type of coronary heart assault anybody can endure.
And possibly it was a stranger who spiked Alexander Litvenenko’s inexperienced tea with polonium, which killed him in 2006.
There at the very least a dozen opponents of Vladimir Putin and his insurance policies who’ve someway been shot, poisoned, or fell out of home windows to their deaths.
Alexei Navalny survived a poisoning in 2020 — brokers smeared the powder in his underpants — as he flew to Moscow from Siberia, the place he had been doing opposition work towards the Putin regime. Docs in Germany saved his life; however he did not keep there safely, along with his household, and change into a high-priced pundit. Alexei Navalny returned to Russia, the place he was instantly arrested and charged.
“That is the way it works,” he informed the courtroom. “They put one man in jail to make tens of millions scared…
“(A)ll of this, the Nationwide Guard, this [defendant’s] cage. It is a present of weak point, simply weak point. … You possibly can’t lock up tens of millions and lots of of hundreds of individuals. And I very a lot hope that individuals can be increasingly more conscious of this. And after they’re conscious, a second will come when all this may crumble.
“My life in all probability is not value a penny,” Navalny stated.
“And I need to say that there are various good issues in Russia now, and one of the best are these very people who find themselves not afraid, who do not forged their eyes down on the desk, and who won’t ever hand over our nation to a bunch of corrupt officers who’ve traded our motherland for their very own palaces, vineyards, and aqua-discos.”
The courtroom speech of Alexei Navalny. He was 47 years outdated. He leaves behind his spouse, Yulia, a daughter, Daria, and their son, Zakhar.
