Thread: Russian Opposition Leader Alexei Navalny

Originally Posted by bsnub

Harvard oh no wait it was Stanford. But it was the CIA. No proof as usual just talking out of your own ass. Do you even realize that there are over 1.1 million international students at American universities? Stanford has 4,238 foreign students currently enrolled. It is commonplace and there is no need to involve the CIA you utter imbecile.

I was just taking the piss about the CIA. We will never know if he's an actual agent for decades when the files get declassified.

But it's a fact that his kids go to elite schools in the west and he gets healthcare in Germany.

He isn't a victim of anything. He's worse than a useful idiot. It's all a dog and pony show.

I'm surprised that nobody has posted about Navalnys latest scam. He released some pictures of a fancy estate that he says Putin built for himself.

It's the Russian version of Camp David. But we won't want a bit of truth to get in the way of a good story.

There is a precedent for blocking posting members from Speakers Corner. Its applied when the poster posts nothing but drivel, their own conjecture of simply outright bullshit. Getting pretty close to time to apply it again for Skidmark. He has been banned before for doing this exact same shit. Thank you.

Originally Posted by Backspin

I was just taking the piss about the CIA.

Originally Posted by Backspin

He isn't a victim of anything.

Originally Posted by aging one

There is a precedent for blocking posting members from Speakers Corner. Its applied when the poster posts nothing but drivel, their own conjecture of simply outright bullshit. Getting pretty close to time to apply it again for Skidmark. He has been banned before for doing this exact same shit. Thank you.

He wouldn't be missed.

Originally Posted by aging one

There is a precedent for blocking posting members from Speakers Corner. Its applied when the poster posts nothing but drivel, their own conjecture of simply outright bullshit.

" nothing but drivel, their own conjecture of simply outright bullshit"?
...that's quite exceptional here, isn't it?

Originally Posted by Klondyke

...that's quite exceptional here, isn't it?

Yup, this is where you are exceptional . . . well, exceptional with Skidmark

^ Here it is. The report about the Russian presidential retreat. Aka camp David

What a noble role just to subvert the govt - and its leader: any other achievement to anticipate?

However, it surely is a very "noble" task when there are others - well decorated - who also like to subvert, topple, liberate, change the regimes - with many good results...

BTW, now the noble fighter may surely expect a wonderful support from his fellow compatriots, now more than before:

After his "appreciation" of his compatriots doctors.

And when even die gute Tante Angela tended to his sickbed... who would not be moved to tears....

(His compatriots do not need to sign a "Patriot Act" to know what is patriotism...)

Originally Posted by Klondyke

And when even die gute Tante Angela tended to his sickbed... who would not be moved to tears....

True . . . how sad that a leader of another country cares more for your own people than yours do.

That's one of the reasons you fuckwits drink yourselves into oblivion when you can afford it

Originally Posted by Backspin

Lol you wank stain

Charming . . . we've been through this before and you were wrong then . . . and you're being a moron again now. Wording and comprehension:

Originally Posted by panama hat

That's one of the reasons you fuckwits drink yourselves into oblivion when you can afford it

Originally Posted by Backspin

Russian alcoholism is down to the European average.

Russia has the highest prevalence of alcohol use disorders overall, with 16.29% of males and 2.58% of females having an alcohol use disorder.

Alcoholism by Country 2020

Originally Posted by Backspin

Russian alcoholism is down to the European average.

Good Lord . . . did you read four books and watch 400 youtube vids on this as well?

Once per week binge drinking and alcoholism are completely different issues. If a full mug of poorly refined cheap “vodka” is your daily breakfast, that’s a different ball game*.

*A friend told me

Navalny supporters beat the shit out of an anti Navalny activist on the street

https://twitter.com/27khv/status/135...287991297?s=19

As It's Happening: Tens of Thousands Rally for Navalny's Release Across Russia

Russians nationwide are taking to the streets of at least 85 cities in support of opposition leader Alexei Navalny, who was jailed this week upon his defiant return to Russia.


Navalny, who had been recovering in Germany from what Western scientists determined to be poisoning by the Soviet-era nerve agent Novichok, asked his supporters to protest against his jailing — and against Russia's ruling elite as a whole. Saturday's events are set to test the strength of his support at home after his poisoning sparked Western sanctions and condemnation against Moscow.


Russian authorities sent out strong warnings against attending the protests, which have not received required government authorization. Several of Navalny's allies were jailed or fined ahead of Saturday's events, while Russia's state media watchdog ordered social media posts promoting the rallies to be taken down.


At least 2,131 people have been detained in 107 cities nationwide, according to independent police monitor OVD-Info.


Here's a live look at the latest news as it happens:


7:49 p.m.: Protesters arrive at Matrosskaya Tishina, the jail where Navalny is being held. Video from the scene shows a heavy police crackdown with detentions.

7:15 p.m.: Navalny aide Leonid Volkov says the team plans to organize more protests next weekend.


6:53 p.m.: Video shows a St. Petersburg riot police officer kicking a woman in the stomach and knocking her onto the pavement after she asks "Why are you arresting him?" Reports say the woman is taken away in an ambulance.

6:45 p.m.: Some Moscow protesters start marching toward the jail where Navalny is being held, reports say.


6:33 p.m.: Yulia Navalnaya has been released from detention, the MBKh Media news website reports.


6:22 p.m.: Protesters in Moscow attacked a car appearing to belong to the security services, video footage showed. The car's driver has been hospitalized with a gouged eye, according to the state-run RIA Novosti news agency.


Meanwhile, video posted to social media shows unarmed, peaceful protesters being beaten and detained by riot police.


5:59 p.m.: About 40 police officers have been injured in Saturday's protests, the state-run RIA and TASS news agencies report.


5:40 p.m.: Roman Anin, editor-in-chief of the iStories news outlet, was detained and later released, the outlet tweeted.


5:33 p.m.: Russia has accused the U.S. Embassy in Moscow of publishing routes of planned demonstrations in support of Navalny and demanded an explanation from American diplomats.


5:23 p.m.: Protesters continue to march through the streets of central Moscow, with police detaining people at random, according to reports on social media. Video footage shows protesters throwing snowballs at officers.

4:54 p.m.: At least four journalists have been hurt during the Moscow protests, the Ekho Moskvy radio station reports.


4:45 p.m.: Small protests in Russia's western exclave of Kaliningrad have started.


4:37 p.m.: A Reuters estimate places the number of protesters in Moscow at 40,000. Confrontations continue to break out between protesters and police.


4:27 p.m.: Police have cleared Moscow's Pushkin Square, reports say. Protesters have spread out into nearby side streets in the city center.


4:21 p.m.: As many as 10,000 people have taken to the streets in Nizhny Novgorod, Novaya Gazeta reports.

MORE As It's Happening: Tens of Thousands Rally for Navalny's Release Across Russia - The Moscow Times

2,100 arrested at protests demanding Navalny’s release


MOSCOW (AP) — Protests erupted in dozens of cities across Russia on Saturday to demand the release of opposition leader Alexei Navalny, the Kremlin’s most prominent foe. Police arrested more than 2,100 people, some of whom took to the streets in temperatures as frigid as minus-50 Celsius (minus-58 Fahrenheit).


In Moscow, thousands of demonstrators filled Pushkin Square in the city center, where clashes with police broke out and demonstrators were roughly dragged off by helmeted riot officers to police buses and detention trucks, some beaten with batons.


Navalny’s wife Yulia was among those arrested.


Police eventually pushed demonstrators out of the square. Thousands then regrouped along a wide boulevard about a kilometer (half-mile) away, many of them throwing snowballs at the police before dispersing.


The protests stretched across Russia’s vast territory, from the island city of Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk north of Japan and the eastern Siberian city of Yakutsk, where temperatures plunged to minus-50 Celsius, to Russia’s more populous European cities. The range demonstrated how Navalny and his anti-corruption campaign have built an extensive network of support despite official government repression and being routinely ignored by state media.

“The situation is getting worse and worse, it’s total lawlessness,” said Andrei Gorkyov, a protester in Moscow. “And if we stay silent, it will go on forever.”


The OVD-Info group that monitors political arrests said at least 795 people were detained in Moscow and more than 300 at another large demonstration in St. Petersburg. Overall, it said 2,131 people had been arrested in some 90 cities.


Undeterred, Navalny’s supporters called for protests again next weekend.


Navalny was arrested on Jan. 17 when he returned to Moscow from Germany, where he had spent five months recovering from a severe nerve-agent poisoning that he blames on the Kremlin and which Russian authorities deny. Authorities say his stay in Germany violated terms of a suspended sentence in a 2014 criminal conviction, while Navalny says the conviction was for made-up charges.


The 44-year-old activist is well known nationally for his reports on the corruption that has flourished under President Vladimir Putin’s government.


His wide support puts the Kremlin in a strategic bind — risking more protests and criticism from the West if it keeps him in custody but apparently unwilling to back down by letting him go free.


Navalny faces a court hearing in early February to determine whether his sentence in the criminal case for fraud and money-laundering — which Navalny says was politically motivated — is converted to 3 1/2 years behind bars.


Moscow police on Thursday arrested three top Navalny associates, two of whom were later jailed for periods of nine and 10 days.


Navalny fell into a coma while aboard a domestic flight from Siberia to Moscow on Aug. 20. He was transferred from a hospital in Siberia to a Berlin hospital two days later. Labs in Germany, France and Sweden, and tests by the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons, established that he was exposed to the Soviet-era Novichok nerve agent.

Russian authorities insisted that the doctors who treated Navalny in Siberia before he was airlifted to Germany found no traces of poison and have challenged German officials to provide proof of his poisoning. Russia refused to open a full-fledged criminal inquiry, citing a lack of evidence that Navalny was poisoned.


Last month, Navalny released the recording of a phone call he said he made to a man he described as an alleged member of a group of officers of the Federal Security Service, or FSB, who purportedly poisoned him in August and then tried to cover it up. The FSB dismissed the recording as fake.


Navalny has been a thorn in the Kremlin’s side for a decade, unusually durable in an opposition movement often demoralized by repressions.


He has been jailed repeatedly in connection with protests and twice was convicted of financial misdeeds in cases that he said were politically motivated. He suffered significant eye damage when an assailant threw disinfectant into his face. He was taken from jail to a hospital in 2019 with an illness that authorities said was an allergic reaction but which many suspected was a poisoning.


2,100 arrested at protests demanding Navalny'''s release

When last Polled, Navalny would have attracted a whopping 3% of the Russian national vote. He is no doubt being at least partially funded by western interests (note I didn't say 'CIA asset') to be a thorn in the side to the Putin administration- I suppose he's the best they've got. But a threat- nah, dream on. He's no more of an actual threat to Putins grip on power than that idiot Guido the killer pimp in Venezuela- the real threat there though, is the idiots that backed him.

Like it or lump it, there exists no credible domestic threat to Putin in Russia at this point in time.

Originally Posted by Backspin

Navalny supporters beat the shit out of an anti Navalny activist on the street

https://twitter.com/27khv/status/135...287991297?s=19

You're really trying to play the victim card having witnessed the brutality that Putin has inflicted on any opposition he has faced?

Here is a video Navalny is not keen to share anymore, in which he compares muslims to cockroaches and flies and recommends shooting them with guns if swatters and shoes fail

https://twitter.com/kazbek/status/1351562415993970688?s=20

Originally Posted by Backspin

Here is a video Navalny is not keen to share anymore, in which he compares muslims to cockroaches and flies and recommends shooting them with guns if swatters and shoes fail

https://twitter.com/kazbek/status/1351562415993970688?s=20

Isn't that what ALL Russians think?

Originally Posted by HermantheGerman

Isn't that what ALL Russians think?

Racist leader, racist population - but Skidmark doesn't have a clue

Originally Posted by HermantheGerman

Isn't that what ALL Russians think?

It's not what Putin thinks. One of the popular criticisms of Putin is that the border is too open to the Borats.

Originally Posted by panama hat

Racist leader, racist population - but Skidmark doesn't have a clue

'Em. The quote was from Navalny. Not Putin. Find me one racist utterance from Putin. One.

Originally Posted by panama hat

racist

Originally Posted by Backspin

the Borats.

Ah, our Skidmark . . .