Thread: Russian Opposition Leader Alexei Navalny

Excellent video here by a Russian national about the protests. This kid puts out all kinds of great content not just political stuff. Nice to here an actual inside voice and not the propaganda that Ohdoh, Klondyke and Sabang post up. Well worth the watch...

Not much info about actually is he accused of... (perhaps it is not so important, is it?)

5 February 2021
The first hearing in the case of Navalny's libel against a veteran lasted 8 hours

Insults, skirmish and an ambulance for a 94-year-old victim: what happened in the courtroom

The prosecutor, the victim and prosecution witnesses addressed the first session

On Friday, February 5, in the Babushkinsky District Court of Moscow, the first hearing was held on the next criminal case against Alexei Navalny ( founder of the Anti-Corruption Foundation, included by the Ministry of Justice in the register of organizations performing the functions of a foreign agent ).

The Investigative Committee of Russia (TFR) accused Navalny of slandering 94-year-old veteran of the Great Patriotic War Ignat Sergeevich Artemenko. Navalny attended the Babushkinsky court session in person, and Artemenko joined the hearing via video link. The meeting began at about 10:00 Moscow time.

Prosecutor Ekaterina Frolova announcedthe plot of the accusation. She stated that the defendant deliberately disseminated information discrediting the war veteran, 94-year-old Ignat Artemenko, who suffered moral damage as a result of the criminal actions of the accused. The prosecutor pointed out that an unlimited number of people got acquainted with Navalny's publication.

Under the video, the accused published an insulting comment: “Here they are, my dears, I must admit that while the team of corrupt lackeys looks weak, look at them - this is a shame for the country,” Frolov quoted Navalny's post.


Navalny pleaded not guilty and accused relatives of the victim of bullying

The defendant denied the accusations of libel against the veteran and said that he did not understand the charge. Navalny did not admit his guilt and stated that he did not know the victim and did not know anything about him until the moment the police came to him.

Navalny accused relatives of 94-year-old Ignat Artemenko of bullying. “His relatives are selling them to get money, and they are bullied,” Navalny said. According to him, the helpless veteran is being used like a doll.

Navalny's lawyer Vadim Kobzev believes that there is no corpus delicti in the actions of his client. “We believe that the charges brought against Navalny are unclear and contradictory,” the lawyer said. In his opinion, there is no objective side of the crime in the case. He referred to the practice of the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) in libel cases, pointing out that there is a difference between expressing an opinion and intentionally lying.



Veteran in court demanded an apology from Navalny

Ignat Artemenko in court demanded an apology from Alexei Navalny. Artemenko, speaking by video link, said that he was a war veteran, was wounded at the front when crossing the Oder River, participated in the partisan movement, and fought on the second Belorussian front.

“In June, I learned that Navalny had called me a traitor to the Motherland, and this made me very sad,” Artemenko said. He wants the defendant to publicly apologize to him. The veteran noted that he gave detailed testimony in the libel case, but now feels bad and asks to stop his interrogation.

After that, at the trial ,testimony of the victim. In them, Artemenko told about the insult inflicted on him by Navalny. According to the victim, in the afternoon of June 9, 2020, his health condition worsened, heart problems began, and he had to call a doctor.

“I felt bad because of the worries about how people now think of me after the critical statements of Navalny. I would like him to apologize to me. I’m not the shame of the country, but its defender. I am not a lackey, I have never betrayed anyone, I am not a man without a conscience, ”the veteran noted. He believes that the defendant has slandered him. “I don’t want to put up with it, I want the law enforcement agencies to protect me,” says his testimony. Artemenko asked his grandson to help him punish Navalny for his slanderous words.


The victim became ill after the performance

At about 14:00, the veteran felt bad: the court interrupted the session so that an ambulance was called for 94-year-old Artemenko. The hearings resumed at 15:00, but without his participation. The judge explained that the examination of the victim's testimony was interrupted because he became ill.

“They, these relatives, will today take this grandfather and strangle this grandfather with a pillow at night in order to say later that this trial has finished,” the defendant said after learning about the absence of the veteran. In response, prosecutor Yekaterina Frolova accused Navalny that Artemenko became ill: "Navalny brought him [Artemenko] to this state."

Navalny called the veteran's grandson a prostitute and a merchant grandfather
After that, testimonies of witnesses began in the Babushkinsky Court of Moscow. One of them - Vladimir Akimov - came to the hearing from the Penza region at his own expense. According to him, he traveled by train. “This is my civil position, no one pressed or forced me,” the witness said .

In June 2020, he asked the TFR to conduct a check in connection with the statements of the defendant. “I was especially offended by the fact that Navalny used the words“ traitor ”and“ corrupt lackey ”to address the veteran of the Great Patriotic War,” Akimov stressed. He believes that the defendant not only insulted Artemenko, but also slandered him. So he answered the question of the defendant's lawyer about the difference between libel and insult.

When Igor Kolesnikov, grandson of Ignat Artemenko, Navalny began to speakcalled him "grandfather merchant" and "prostitute grandson." According to the accused, relatives use the elderly person "like a doll" to participate in the trial.


The basis for the criminal case was Navalny's post

On the eve of voting on amendments to the Constitution, veteran Ignat Artemenko took part in filming a video of the state television channel RT, in which famous Russians, among whom were designer Artemy Lebedev, actor Ivan Okhlobystin and Olympic champion Adelina Sotnikova, read out the preamble to the basic law with the proposed changes.

On June 2, 2020, Navalny posted this video on his social networks, calling its participants corrupt lackeys, shameless people and traitors. On the same day, a member of the Public Chamber, lawyer Ilya Remeslo published on his Facebook page a complaint to the TFR and the Moscow prosecutor's office with a request to check Navalny's statement.

According to the lawyer, Navalny should be prosecuted under Article 5.61 ("Insult") of the Administrative Code of the Russian Federation. In the ICR, on the fact of the appeal, Craft began a pre-investigation check.


In the TFR, Navalny's actions were assessed as slander against Artemenko

On June 15, 2020, Yulia Ivanova, the official representative of the capital's head office of the TFR, reported that the Main Investigation Directorate (GSO) of the TFR opened a criminal case against Navalny. He was suspected of slandering Artemenko.

According to the investigation, Navalny posted a comment in his accounts containing deliberately false information, discrediting the honor and dignity of Artemenko. "According to the investigation, Navalny pursued the goal of spreading slander among a wide range of people," the ICR concluded. Two days later, on June 17, 2020, the court took a recognizance not to leave Navalny.

The sanction of Part 2 of Article 128 of the Criminal Code of Russia, under which the case was initiated, provides for a penalty in the form of a fine of up to one million rubles or in the amount of the convict's salary for a period of up to a year, or compulsory work for up to 240 hours.


Later, the veteran personally asked to protect him from Navalny

Soon after the initiation of a criminal libel case, the veteran's grandson Igor Kolesnikov thanked the investigating authorities for their "support and assistance in restoring justice." Kolesnikov said that his grandfather became ill with his heart when he learned about the insults in his address.

On June 17, 2020, veteran Artemenko personally asked the investigation to protect him from Navalny. “Navalny slandered me, called me a lackey, and I don’t want to put up with it. I want to ask you to protect me and punish him. Since I have angina, my angina attack started when I found out. I ask to punish him, ”he said in an interview with the media.

The investigation of the libel case was completed six months ago

On July 22, 2020, lawyer Vadim Kobzev said that Alexei Navalny was charged with defamation of veteran Ignat Artemenko. According to Kobzev, investigators interrogated Navalny as an accused. He pleaded not guilty. He was handed a summons to appear in the TFR on 23 July. The lawyer indicated that the investigation promised to notify him of the end of the investigation of the case.

Two days later, on July 24, Yulia Ivanova, a representative of the Moscow department of the TFR, announced that the department had completed its investigation of the criminal case of libel against Artemenko. According to her, Navalny and his lawyer began to familiarize themselves with the case materials.


Earlier, Navalny was replaced with a suspended sentence in the Yves Rocher case

At the end of December 2020, the Federal Penitentiary Service (FSIN) of Russia put Navalny on the wanted list for evading control of the criminal executive inspection. On January 17, 2021, the oppositionist was detained at Sheremetyevo airport upon arrival from Germany - this happened on the basis of a decree of the head of the Federal Penitentiary Service for Moscow.

On February 2, the Simonovsky Court of Moscow decided to replace Navalny's suspended sentence in the Yves Rocher case with a real term of 3.5 years in a general regime colony. He will spend 2 years and 8 months in the colony: a year of being under house arrest during the preliminary investigation is included in the term of imprisonment.

Mass actions in support of Navalny took place on January 23 and 31 and February 2 in Moscow, St. Petersburg, Kazan, Nizhny Novgorod, Saratov, Chelyabinsk, Yekaterinburg, Yakutsk and other large cities. None of them was agreed with the local authorities; hundreds of people were detained for participating in the actions.

Первое заседание по делу о клевете Навального на ветерана продолжалось 8 часов: Следствие и суд: Силовые структуры: Lenta.ru

Originally Posted by Klondyke

Veteran in court demanded an apology from Navalny

Your generation should stop being used as propaganda pieces, Klondyke . . .



. . . and see how badly you have been used by self-centred and totalitarian leaders. (A shitload of medals there, Russians have a penchant for them:




Similar to your like-minded totalitarian brethren



. . . and here's Klondyke at the far left in 2006


)

. He also accused the judge of conducting an interrogation similar to what would happen in a "fascist commandant's office."

"I ask permission to address you not as 'Your Honor,' but as 'Obersturmbannfuhrer,'" he said, telling Akimova that she would look good next to a machine gun.

Russian opposition figure Alexey Navalny’s defamation case adjourned once again – faces fine after calling WWII veteran ‘traitor’ — RT Russia & Former Soviet Union

Wondering what would happen if something like this is uttered in a court of other countries?

So now you're elevating your beloved mother Russia above the likes of USA, UK and Australia on the basis of its transparent legal system?

^^ Contempt of Court. If it's a first offence, a simple Novichok cuppa is administered.

Originally Posted by Klondyke

"I ask permission to address you not as 'Your Honor,' but as 'Obersturmbannfuhrer,'" he said, telling Akimova that she would look good next to a machine gun.

Ouch.

I am not expecting the man to emerge from his jail cell. They've killed with impunity, they can again.

Originally Posted by russellsimpson

I am not expecting the man to emerge from his jail cell. They've killed with impunity, they can again.

If you buy any of the shit in the article Klondyke posted you are as thick as he is.

If Vlad wanted him dead, he would be sleeping with the fish. if Vlad wanted him exiled, he would not have been allowed to return to Russia. Clearly, Vlad enjoys the Clown show. Gotta keen sense of humour has Vlad.

Originally Posted by sabang

If Vlad wanted him dead, he would be sleeping with the fish.

So, how the world should trust in Vlad's Sputnik Vaccine when seeing his recent failure (not one only) with his Novichok...

Good question, but:-

The rollout of Russia's Sputnik vaccine was roundly criticised, now more than a billion doses have been ordered around the world

The rollout of Russia's Sputnik vaccine was roundly criticised, now more than a billion doses have been ordered around the world - ABC News

Originally Posted by sabang

Good question, but:-

The rollout of Russia's Sputnik vaccine was roundly criticised, now more than a billion doses have been ordered around the world

The rollout of Russia's Sputnik vaccine was roundly criticised, now more than a billion doses have been ordered around the world - ABC News

Hey if it opens up the airports, jab the fuckers.

I'll still be wearing my N95.

jab the fuckers.

Agreed el maximo. Australia is lagging in it's rollout, sigh.

Did we underestimate Russia’s vaccine?

Feb 10, 2021
WaPo

Not long ago, talk of the Russian-made coronavirus vaccine provoked mockery. “There’s no way in hell the U.S. tries this on monkeys, let alone people,” a Trump administration official told CNN in August, referring to initial reports about Russia’s development of the Sputnik V drug — which bypassed traditional steps in testing before its release. Even at home, where a history of political opacity and bureaucratic incompetence has left a lingering distrust of authority, many ordinary Russians shied away from getting the jab once it was made available to the public in December.

But now, Sputnik V — named after the world’s first satellite that saw the Soviets initially outpace the Americans in the space race — is starting to look like it could be a global success story. It got a boost last week after the respected British medical journal the Lancet published a peer-reviewed paper that found the vaccine had 91.6 percent efficacy 21 days after the first shot and 91.8 percent for those over 60 years old, placing it on par with the celebrated Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna vaccines.

More than a dozen countries have approved the vaccine for use, with more likely to follow now that it has received the Lancet’s seal of approval. Sputnik V is considerably cheaper than its Western competitors and does not require the same sort of ultracold storage infrastructure that would complicate distribution of the Pfizer vaccine in much of the developing world.

“This is a watershed moment for us,” Kirill Dmitriev, chief executive of the state-run Russian Direct Investment Fund, which is behind both Sputnik V’s development and its international rollout, told Bloomberg News.

Covid19 vaccinations began in #Iran today, with a batch of 10,000 of Russia's Sputnik V vaccines arriving in the country.

The Health Minister's son had his vaccine shot in front of President Rouhani & cameras in a bid to demonstrate the vaccine's safety to the public: pic.twitter.com/BuIUcrjpzC

Experts speaking to Dixon cautioned that this achievement may be something of an “outlier” and does not herald a Russian scientific renaissance. But it does come on the heels of a major national research strategy implemented by President Vladimir Putin in recent years, including investments in universities and research labs.

On multiple continents, governments have turned to administering Sputnik V. This week, Iran began inoculating its health-care workers with the Russian vaccine ahead of a broader push toward immunization in a country weakened by economic sanctions and home to the pandemic’s worst outbreak in the Middle East. Russia and Iran also agreed a deal for the Iranians to start manufacturing the vaccine by April. Plans are already in motion for Sputnik V to be mass produced in India, Turkey, Brazil and South Korea, while Russia has promised free vaccinations to its entire population.

Six countries in Latin America, beginning with Argentina, have begun distributing it to their citizens. “The Russian Sputnik V vaccine is safe, it has 92 percent efficacy against COVID, it can be used safely and is effective in seniors,” Hugo López-Gatell, the Mexican government’s chief pandemic spokesperson, told reporters last week. “It allows us now to accelerate the step of vaccination against COVID in Mexico.” Last month, Mexico announced the purchase of 24 million Sputnik doses.

Perhaps the biggest prize — at least, in geopolitical terms — is Europe. Dogged by production shortages and failures in procurement, E.U. countries have lagged in their vaccination efforts compared with the United States and Britain. This week, Hungary announced its approval of Sputnik V and received 40,000 doses of the vaccine. “The vaccine cannot be a political question,” Prime Minister Viktor Orban told state radio last month. “One can only choose between western and eastern vaccines when you have enough.”

It’s piquing interest further west, too. German Chancellor Angela Merkel said last week that she would welcome the Russian vaccine within the bloc as long as it passed the approval of E.U. regulators.

That openness stands in stark contrast to tensions between the two powers on other fronts. In Brussels, attention focused on what’s been viewed as a shambolic trip to Moscow by Josep Borrell, the E.U.’s foreign policy chief, who went to the Russian capital in the aftermath of the controversial jailing of prominent opposition leader Alexei Navalny. The veteran diplomat bore an olive branch but returned humiliated.

“The trip, which was capped by Russia’s expulsion of three E.U. diplomats over their alleged participation in protests about Navalny, was so disastrous it appears to have prompted Borrell to rethink his stance on sanctioning Russia for the activist’s poisoning and imprisonment,” wrote my colleague Michael Birnbaum. “Asked at Friday’s news conference about the prospect of punitive E.U. measures, he said no. On Tuesday, there was a shift: He said he would propose measures that ‘could include sanctions.’ ”

Kremlin critics want President Biden and his allies in Europe to take a firm line against the Russian regime. At the very least, they should “stop giving Putin and other authoritarian regimes leverage and legitimacy with trade deals, memberships and access,” exiled dissident Garry Kasparov wrote in a Washington Post opinion piece. “Lecturing dictators about human rights is meaningless if you’re also taking their oil, gas and cash.” But what about their vaccines?


https://www.washingtonpost.com/world...nderestimated/

“There’s no way in hell the U.S. tries this on monkeys, let alone people,” a Trump administration official told CNN in August,

wasn't it our Harry?

Originally Posted by Klondyke

I'm an utter fuckwit

Yup . . .

Originally Posted by Klondyke

It’s piquing interest further west, too. German Chancellor Angela Merkel said last week that she would welcome the Russian vaccine within the bloc as long as it passed the approval of E.U. regulators.

Yup, why not

So that's it then. Everyones got Novichok now.

Originally Posted by sabang

So that's it then. Everyones got Novichok now.

So which vaccine would you pick given the choice then?

I would pick the first available.

^ Quite silly when others will be along soon

I would still pick the first available. A bird in the hand...

Originally Posted by sabang

I would still pick the first available. A bird in the hand...

You would but then again you worship at the altar of Xi and Putin. So have at it. I will get my jab of Pfizer vaccine this coming Wednesday and contrary to OhDoh the dimwits claims I will not pay a damn dime for it.

I doubt either will be the first available here. But regardless, I would take the first available.

Originally Posted by sabang

I would still pick the first available. A bird in the hand...

That's my boy. Here's hoping it's Sinovac

You'll know if I book a trip to Hainan.