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    Quote Originally Posted by sabang View Post
    I think the West should sack this clown as preferred Putin opposition, and hire Pussy Riot instead.
    Yeah. I want to see this again


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    Foreign Ministry invited the West to deal with Assange in response to demands on Navalny
    22 April 2021

    There are many people in Western countries who need medical attention - for example, WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange . This was announced by the Russian Foreign Ministry in response to demands related to the founder of the Anti-Corruption Fund (FBK, included by the Ministry of Justice in the register of organizations performing the functions of a foreign agent) Alexei Navalny , RIA Novosti reports .

    “There are many people in your countries who require medical assistance, for example, Assange, take care of them,” the Foreign Ministry suggested.

    A similar statement was made earlier by the speaker of the State Duma Vyacheslav Volodin . He reminded Western politicians of the fate of Assange and a former employee of the US National Security Agency (NSA) Edward Snowden , suggesting that they should be concerned about them, and not about the observance of human rights in Russia. According to him, Assange is now in prison, unable to communicate even with human rights defenders.

    Ombudsman for human rights in Russia Tatyana Moskalkova on Wednesday, April 21, said that four doctors not from the system of the Federal Penitentiary Service (FSIN) were allowed to see Navalny . According to her, there are no serious concerns. Moskalkova noted that the prisoner receives all the necessary therapy, he is given IVs.

    Navalny is serving a sentence in correctional colony No. 2 (IK-2) in the Vladimir region. At the end of March, it became known about the deterioration of his health; on April 19, the FSIN reported that he was being transferred to a hospital for convicts. It was noted that a therapist, neurosurgeon, neurologist, nutritionist and psychiatrist examined the oppositionist in connection with his complaints of deteriorating health. He also underwent MRI, ultrasound, ECG.

    МИД предложил Западу заняться Ассанжем в ответ на требования по Навальному: Политика: Мир: Lenta.ru

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    Russia needs liberals in politics, but failure of Navalny movement shows futility of street protests & reliance on foreign backers.

    By Glenn Diesen, Professor at the University of South-Eastern Norway


    The saga around Alexey Navalny is a watershed moment for Russia’s liberal opposition. It marks another failed transition from political activism to political power, and should prompt a complete rethink of the movement’s strategy.

    Russian liberals should now establish a responsible presence in the political system. This demands replacing revolutionary politics and foreign sponsors with the development of accountable political platforms providing solutions to complex problems.

    Revolutionary Russia

    Russia’s turbulent history has largely been defined by revolutionary change. The past millennium has been siloed into fragmented periods – from the Kievan Rus, the Mongol state, Muscovite Russia, Peter the Great’s Cultural Revolution, the Great Reforms following the Crimean War, the democratic change of 1905, the Bolshevik Revolution of 1917, and the liberal success in 1991. The fragmented history has been disruptive and destructive as each period made a break with the former. The enduring legacy has been competing visions of Russia’s future and the reliance on authoritarian governance for stability.

    Revolutionary change is defined by uprooting the existing system to give way to something entirely different. Revolutionaries seize power by selling a utopian vision of the future anchored in human freedoms, yet revolutions are usually followed by authoritarianism and coercion as the new leaders do not rest on the consensus and legitimacy of the past.

    Liberal revolutionaries

    Liberalism was also introduced as a revolutionary change in Russia as part of the Decembrist revolt in 1825, which aimed to overthrow the government to impose ideas imported from France. The event set Russian liberals on a radical path and incentivised Tsar Nicholas to respond by rooting out revolutionaries and strengthening the autocracy. For the next two centuries, the opposite of centralised power has been anarchy, not liberal democracy.

    The Democratic Revolution of 1905 had a weak foundation as democracy had not developed gradually and the rapid changes did not have deep roots in the political culture. The freedoms were enabled with the stroke of a pen, and then removed just as easily when the Bolsheviks took power a decade later by taking advantage of the ensuing instability.

    Democracy is imperative to cultivate a peaceful transfer of power and to ensure gradual change. By contrast, the concept of a “democratic revolution” is paradoxical to the extent it entails the undemocratic seizure of power by a political group without democratic accountability. Destroying existing social structures without replacing them with viable alternatives is the definition of anarchy, which then leaves the option of collapse or authoritarianism to restore control. Thus, liberals share the blame for the dichotomy of centralised control versus anarchy for failing to shed their revolutionary origin.

    Foreign supporters: bringing liberalism or subversion?

    Russian liberals have a long history of accommodating Western powers as allies. This makes Russia vulnerable to empires, presenting themselves as humanitarians, that supposedly never fight other countries, but only the leadership of adversarial countries in alleged support of its oppressed people.

    Tearing down the existing system without replacing it with something viable is a treacherous platform for a political opposition, but a reasonable strategy for foreign powers that want to see Russia weakened.




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    Isn't he dead yet?

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    apparently not.


    Quote Originally Posted by Backspin View Post

    Full article Russia needs liberals in politics, but failure of Navalny movement shows futility of street protests & reliance on foreign backers


    Rt.com again...

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    Well no, a Norwegian professor actually.

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    Quote Originally Posted by sabang View Post
    Well no, a Norwegian professor actually.
    Writing for rt.com

    By Glenn Diesen, Professor at the University of South-Eastern Norway and an editor at the Russia in Global Affairs journal. Follow him on Twitter @glenndiesen

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    We are in an information war. All the blame for the bad relationship is placed on Russia, and if one ever criticises this, one is easily accused of spreading Russian propaganda”, Diesen responded.

    “I also write for American, Australian, Danish, German and Norwegian media – but of course only my participation in the Russian media is problematic”, Diesen wrote in a subsequent piece on Steigan. “Information wars are detrimental to open societies as they create a dilemma between democratic debate and the need to mobilise opinions against hostile powers”, Diesen mused, warning that the information war against Russia damages academic freedom in particular.

    “The main problem in European security after the Cold War is that the attempt to build a Europe without Europe's largest country results in clashing security interests between the West and Russia”, Diesen concluded.

    In addition to being a professor at the University of South Eastern Norway, Glenn Diesen is also a professor at the Higher School of Economics in Moscow, and an Adjunct Research Fellow at Western Sydney University. Diesen’s research focus includes Russian foreign policy, and the geoeconomics of European and Eurasian integration. Diesen is also the author of several books: “EU and NATO Relations with Russia: After the Collapse of the Soviet Union”, “Russia’s Geoeconomic Strategy for a Greater Eurasia”, “The Decay of Western Civilisation and Resurgence of Russia: Between Gemeinschaft and Gesellschaft”, “Russia in a Changing World”, “Russian Conservatism: Managing Change under Permanent Revolution” and “Great Power Politics in the Fourth Industrial Revolution: The Geoeconomics of Technological Sovereignty”.

    Norwegian Professor Faces Propaganda Accusations Over Collaboration With Russian Media - Sputnik International (sputniknews.com)

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    ^Fetch up a connection to Russians - even a slightest one - and you have got a strong "argument" against him, he is demonised...

    Unlike anybody who does not possess any such connection, in contrary, he is known by his strong dislike of anything Russians, his views on anything will be most valuable, put on pedestal...

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    An excellent article.

    Thanks Backspin.




    Is he dead yet?

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    Quote Originally Posted by russellsimpson View Post
    Is he dead yet?
    Not yet, for the start just sanctioned (on no-fly list)

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    Seeing that there has been so much discussion about thread changes of late could I request of a sympathetic mod that we might consider changing the current thread title to "Russian Opposition Leader Alexie "Is he dead Yet" Navalry"

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    The blokes like a cat with nine lives. No votes though.

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    Quote Originally Posted by russellsimpson View Post


    Is he dead yet?
    Putin foe Alexei Navalny dies in jail, West holds Russia responsible

    reuters.com

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    It was inevitable.

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