I’ll never understand why he intentionally let himself be captured by Russia. The outcome was inevitable.
He is so notorious because he was willing to selflessly put himself in the frontline to prove a point.
That doesn’t make any sense, but okay.
Martyrdom. Navalny knew what it would mean to return; he also knew the risk of not returning (constantly trying to avoid shitty assassination attempts with collateral damage).
I mean, you don’t have to be convicted to be a martyr.
Look at Snowden.
Speaking of… When was the last time we heard from Snowden? Haven’t seen his name in the media since basically the start of the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
He usually ends up in the news for shilling Signal.
I don’t know whether it had a significant impact in Russia, but the rest of the world only knows/cares about the guy because he went back. Otherwise he’d just be yet another person murdered by Putin’s regime.
No need to guess at why he did it; Navalny explained exactly why he went back literally in the first minute of his Putin’s Palace video, which he specifically timed to release on the same day he arrived back in Russia.
Hi, it’s Navalny. We came up with this investigation when I was in intensive care, but we immediately agreed that we would release it when I returned home, to Russia, to Moscow, because we do not want the main character of this film to think that we are afraid of him and that I will tell about his worst secret while abroad. One of these viewers is the most devoted admirer of our work, on whose orders I was poisoned, is Vladimir Putin. He is definitely watching this now, and his heart is filling with nostalgia. This is not only an investigation, but also, in a sense, a psychological portrait.
That portion of the transcript comes right after the silent opening text where protests are announced that coincide with his return to Moscow and guaranteed arrest.
Why can’t you believe what Navalny said himself? Or are you just sealioning?
Also, for anyone who hasn’t seen it, the video is excellent and the same information is presented on his text site (it is in Russian; use Google Translate or another translator to get the English version): https://palace.navalny.com/
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The only thing not making sense is how you’re not understanding the concept.
I guess you’re right.
Maybe he did have a greater impact getting poisoned, imprisoned, and ‘defenestrated’ than he would have had outside of Russia.
Time will tell, I won’t hold my breath.
Personally, I think you’re just finding ways to agree with the crowd even if they’re wrong. I don’t hold most people above that behavior.
In a Russian prison, he acts as a symbol for the opposition. And if Putin should fall, the opposition can free him and have a credible leader who’s shown that he puts his ideals over his own safety.
In the west, he’d be completely without influence on anything or anyone inside Russia, now and in the future.Basically he gambled that Putin will die before him.
Basically he gambled that Putin will die before him.
Well, that didn’t work out as planned for him.
A regime like Putin’s is stable until it suddenly is not. Russia has a lot of dark times ahead of it.
Russians honestly are mostly waiting for those times; chaos is frightening, but stable decline into a dystopia is even worse.
Besides, keeping on with “stable” regime means losing many, many lives; possibly way more than a radical change can entail. But that depends on who and how comes to power.
Unlike the US, right?
That would depend on your next president. Personally from an outsider view I hope it’s not trump again.
Same. I worry about the complacency of voters though. People are unhappy with Biden, I think more on their perceptions of him rather than his record. Although his support of Israel is not helping.
maybe, maybe not. Completely irrelevant in this discussion either way.
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Hopefully he disappeared because someone thinks he might make for a good replacement of someone in the future, but more likely they finally tortured him to death and destroyed his body so he can’t become a martyr.
Be careful what you wish for, he’s more hard line than Putin. War in Ukraine? He thinks Russia isn’t sending enough troops, and he wants all of Ukraine. Way worse for LGBTQ+ rights than Putin, and that’s not easy to do. He almost makes Putin look like a human rights activist.
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Disappointing.
Any possibillity this could be the final spark before the powder keg detonates?
It’s doubtful.
I wish he stayed in Germany, why the hell did he return?
Hard to effect positive change in a country you’re not in
People who have such a sense of mission and put themselves on the line like that are so amazing to me, I spent enough time feeling like I was in prison that I always wanted to be free and ok as soon as I could contrive that
There has been so many “final” sparks, i lost hope already
Sorry internet friend 😢 Do you live there or are you referring more to it like I am?
Live here, unfortunately
What was the deal with the Russian Tax agency or whatever getting hacked and damaged?
Claims are denied, and I didn’t see any change touching me.
Lame.
The catholics would have sentenced his corpse.
And the Mormons are baptizing them. With or without the body or consent.
What catholics bro what are you smoking
Look up the Cadaver Synod. He’s smoking historical facts.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
Russian judges have halted new criminal proceedings for the jailed opposition leader Alexei Navalny as supporters say he has not contacted his lawyers in nearly two weeks and a UN official has said his absence amounted to a “forced disappearance”.
Courts halted seven judicial hearings on Monday “until [Navalny’s] whereabouts [is] established”, his lawyers said, further raising concerns that the Kremlin critic could be muzzled or even killed as Vladimir Putin has announced plans to extend his rule for a fifth presidential term.
Kira Yarmysh, an aide to Navalny, said his team had sent requests to nearly 200 Russian pre-trial detention centres searching for more information on the missing opposition leader but had not been able to find him.
The Kremlin has not answered questions on Navalny’s whereabouts, with Putin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov saying his team had “neither the intention nor the ability to track the fate of prisoners.”
Mr Navalny’s lawyers, who have been prevented from meeting him since 6 December, were told by the court that their client is no longer held in the Vladimir region, without providing any further details,” Katzarova said.
Navalny’s supporters have launched an anti-Putin guerrilla campaign including billboards in Moscow, St Petersburg and Novosibirsk with a QR-code linking to a website that calls for Putin critics to use nonviolent “partisan” tactics to voice their dissent.
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