opposition leader, funny and uncome pro myselfing uncome pro miceing and was going to run for president last year against vladimir putin. obviously that can t stand. two weeks ago, a court convicted him on random embezzlement futures involving timber futures. the government now is indicating that he had no longer be allowed to run for president against vladimir putin because of that terrible embezzlement conviction. and that hammer fell on one of our smartest russian watchers said this. the trump administration notably said nothing. david remnick has a heavy duty
them bezelment conviction that they finagled in this court last week, that s the important one because arguably russian law says if you are convicted of a crime like that, if you are convicted and sentenced for embezzlement, which he just was, that legally disqualifies you from running for office. so, yeah, timber futures. okay. that s what we ll get him for. and now the most viable opposition politician in russia, this 40-year-old handsome telegenic clever accomplished well known corruption exposing provocateur just won t be allowed to put his name on the ballot if he tries to run against putin next year. he says he will appeal, he insists he will figure out a way to still run for president but you know what? under vladimir putin the state has its ways and because of what appears to be this totally ginned up embezzlement conviction they were able to
american audience just last week is because last week putin figured out a way to disqualify alexi navalny from being an opposition figure. from running against putin for president. they found a remote regional court hundreds of miles from moscow and they got that court to convict alexi navalny in some obscure scheme involving timber futures. this is the most recent in a series of things they have tried to convict him of or set him up for. they went after him for alleged elk coaching. elk poaching? they reportedly tried to convict him of stealing street heart. there was a fraud allegation from the government involing perfume. they ve come up with weird stuff to arrest alexi navalny for but them bezelment conviction that
they finagled in this court last week, that s the important one because arguably russian law says if you are convicted of a crime like that, if you are convicted and sentenced for embezzlement, which he just was, that legally disqualifies you from running for office. so, yeah, timber futures. okay. that s what we ll get him for. and now the most viable opposition politician in russia, this 40-year-old handsome telegenic clever accomplished well known corruption exposing provocateur just won t be allowed to put his name on the ballot if he tries to run against putin next year. he says he will appeal, he insists he will figure out a way to still run for president but you know what? under vladimir putin the state has its ways and because of what appears to be this totally ginned up embezzlement conviction they were able to pull off, that i ve used that as an excuse to shut down his means of raising money towards running for president next year.
having to do with timber futures? nobody believes it was a real case but it was a real conviction and technically that conviction disqualifies alexei navalny from running against putin. keeps him off the ballot. that embezzlement conviction they cooked up means he technically will not be allowed to run against vladimir putin for president next year. and alexei navalny is unbowed and apparently unafraid by these machinations from putin s government. despite all these things that putin has done to him. despite this conviction, he says he s still going to run. he says he ll figure it out. they can t stop him. but check this out, today, holy mackerel, today alexei navalny just posted this online. that s him in the tie. alexei navalny, he runs something called the anti-corruption project and today they posted this video,