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Alexey Navalny long avoided the fate of Russian opposition voices who have been removed with regularity and impunity. But with his anti-corruption campaign, popular YouTube videos and a “smart voting” strategy that encourages voters to back candidates with the best chance of defeating Kremlin picks, he became an intolerable threat to President Vladimir Putin.
Attacked with a military-grade nerve agent last year, he survived and on returning from convalescence in Berlin was immediately arrested, tried and jailed. Prosecutors have now begun a process that’s expected to ban his Anti-Corruption Foundation as an “extremist organization.” His allies have announced they are disbanding his regional political network under mounting pressure from the authorities.
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(Bloomberg Opinion) Alexey Navalny long avoided the fate of Russian opposition voices who have been removed with regularity and impunity. But with his anti-corruption campaign, popular YouTube videos and a âsmart votingâ strategy that encourages voters to back candidates with the best chance of defeating Kremlin picks, he became an intolerable threat to President Vladimir Putin.Â
(Bloomberg Opinion) Alexey Navalny long avoided the fate of Russian opposition voices who have been removed with regularity and impunity. But with his anti-corruption campaign, popular YouTube videos and a âsmart votingâ strategy that encourages voters to back candidates with the best chance of defeating Kremlin picks, he became an intolerable threat to President Vladimir Putin.Â
January 19, 2021 08:16
Western leaders have demanded the release of Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny, who was arrested Sunday on arrival in Moscow after receiving medical treatment in Germany. The 44-year-old Putin critic and leader of the Russia of the Future party was poisoned by a nerve agent in Siberia last August. The Kremlin denies involvement in that attack. The Russian authorities have arrested the victim of an attempted assassination with a chemical weapon, not the perpetrator, German government spokesperson Steffen Seibert told reporters Monday. The German government strongly calls on the Russian government to first of all release Mr. Navalny immediately and secondly to fully investigate the circumstances of the chemical weapons attack on Russian soil, he added.
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Download File LONDON - Western leaders have demanded the release of Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny, who was arrested Sunday on arrival in Moscow after receiving medical treatment in Germany.
The 44-year-old Putin critic and leader of the Russia of the Future party was poisoned by a nerve agent in Siberia last August. The Kremlin denies involvement in that attack.
“The Russian authorities have arrested the victim of an attempted assassination with a chemical weapon, not the perpetrator,” German government spokesperson Steffen Seibert told reporters Monday. “The German government strongly calls on the Russian government to first of all release Mr. Navalny immediately and secondly to fully investigate the circumstances of th