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Navalny protests
DIR By: guest5
Date: January 23, 2021, 12:40 pm
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Protests erupt in Russia after arrest of opposition leader
Alexey Navalny
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> Thousands of supporters of Alexey Navalny, one of Russian
President Vladimir Putin's most outspoken critics, have taken to
the nation's streets. The opposition leader was detained as soon
as he returned to Russia on Sunday. Elizabeth Palmer reports on
how Navalny is causing a headache for the Kremlin.
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HTML https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tnwj1fag5uk
They even manage to use Putin to take swipes at Monarchy in this
video.
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Re: Re: Duginism
DIR By: guest5
Date: January 25, 2021, 8:32 pm
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LIVE: Putin Brands Navalny Protests ‘Dangerous’ as More Rallies
Called
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> President Vladimir Putin branded protests in support of jailed
opposition leader Alexey Navalny “dangerous” for Russia,
defending a widening crackdown after tens of thousands of people
took to the streets in cities across the nation.
>
> Saturday’s demonstrations were the biggest since 2018, with
one pollster estimating protesters in Moscow numbered as many as
35,000, the largest unauthorized rally in the capital of Putin’s
21-year rule. Police detained more than 3,500 people in 125
cities, including almost 1,500 in Moscow, according to
monitoring group OVD-Info, though most were released within
hours.
>
>
> Protests “must be conducted within the limits of the law,”
Putin told students Monday at a televised videoconference in
which he compared organizers who appealed to minors to
participate to “terrorists.” Without mentioning Navalny by name,
he said it was “irresponsible” to use protests in service of
political ambitions, and pointed to U.S. prosecutions of those
who invaded the Capitol on Jan. 6 as evidence that other
countries also react harshly to opponents who break the law.
>
> Navalny ally Leonid Volkov called for new protests Jan. 31.
The showdown marks a serious challenge for Putin, 68, who pushed
to change the constitution last year to allow him to continue as
president until 2036. His support fell to a record last year as
the economy buckled under the strain of the Covid-19 epidemic.
Putin has yet to say if he’ll run for a fifth term in 2024.
>
> Navalny, 44, was imprisoned just over a week ago after he
returned to Moscow from Berlin, where he’d been recovering from
a near-fatal nerve-agent poisoning that he and Western
governments blame on Putin’s security service. The Kremlin
denies responsibility.
>
> The opposition leader faces a prison term of as long as 3 1/2
years at a Feb. 2 hearing for allegedly violating his probation
under a suspended sentence during his treatment in Germany,
while potential new charges also carry a maximum 10 years in
jail. Officials close to the leadership warn that the Kremlin is
determined to lock up Putin’s most prominent opponent for years.
>
> The court hearing will take place just before European Union
foreign policy chief Josep Borrell travels to Moscow next week
to meet with Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov. Borrell said he’ll
raise Navalny’s jailing during his visit.
>
> A top Russian Foreign Ministry official reprimanded U.S.
Ambassador John Sullivan on Monday after Moscow accused the
American Embassy of encouraging the demonstrations. The
diplomatic mission ahead of the rallies urged U.S. citizens not
to attend them, providing details of the planned venues. The
State Department later condemned what it termed “the use of
harsh tactics against protesters and journalists.”
>
> In his first public comments on a video Navalny released
alleging Putin has a gigantic palace on the Black Sea coast, the
president said he hadn’t watched the whole 2-hour film, which
has gained more than 85 million views on YouTube since its
release Jan. 19. Putin denied that he or any of his close
relatives owned the luxurious villa, calling the video “boring”
before asking the students to focus questions on other topics.
>
> The wave of protests is a test for the opposition, which has
seen previous surges in anti-government activity fade as the
authorities have taken a hard line against participants. The
Kremlin in recent years has imposed steadily tighter
restrictions on public protests.
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HTML https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SYYCqqHe-WQ
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Re: Re: Duginism
DIR By: guest5
Date: January 26, 2021, 6:33 pm
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'Something Big' is Happening in Russia | The Mehdi Hasan Show
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> Bill Browder, who did business in Russia before being expelled
by Putin, joins Mehdi Hasan to explain why he believes the
uprisings that occurred in Russia over the weekend are different
than previous movements.
>
> The Mehdi Hasan Show: Insightful reporting and probing
interviews that examine the day's events and provide a deeper
level of context for the politics of our interconnected society.
Watch The Mehdi Hasan Show on The Choice channel on Peacock TV,
weeknights, 7 p.m. ET. Subscribe to the channel for more
interviews.
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HTML https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xi-eIXPWX9Y
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Re: Re: Duginism
DIR By: guest5
Date: January 27, 2021, 8:42 pm
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How Russia's TikTok generation are poised to take on Putin
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> Supporters of Russia's opposition leader Alexey Navalny gear
up for more protests as the nation's youth grow more empowered
to speak up against President Vladimir Putin. CNN's Frederik
Pleitgen reports.
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HTML https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_6MzED7nU8c
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Re: Duginism
DIR By: guest5
Date: January 27, 2021, 10:50 pm
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Russian police raid Alexei Navalny's home and offices | DW News
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> Police in Moscow raided apartments and offices belonging to
Russian opposition figure Alexei Navalny and his associates on
Wednesday. It is unclear whether arrests were made and what
police were looking for.
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HTML https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ZZvU0lbEQE
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Re: Western Democracy
DIR By: guest5
Date: January 28, 2021, 11:18 pm
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**** Riot’s Nadya: Russian Protestors Are ‘Fighting For
Democracy’
HTML https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vYB3gZgstvw
Translation: Russian protestors are fighting for "Divided We
Fall" just like Westerners....
Absolute morons!
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> Monarchy can easily be "debunked", but watch the faces, mark
well the accents of the debunkers. These are the men (or women)
whose taproot in Eden has been cut -- whom no rumor of the
polyphony, the dance, can reach – men to whom pebbles laid in a
row are more beautiful than an arch. Yet even if they desire
mere equality they cannot reach it. Where men are forbidden to
honor a king they honor millionaires, athletes, or film-stars
instead -- even famous prostitutes or gangsters. For spiritual
nature, like bodily nature, will be served -- deny it food and
it will gobble poison. — C.S. Lewis
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Re: Navalny protests
DIR By: guest5
Date: January 30, 2021, 11:09 pm
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Russian court rejects Navalny’s appeal; allies arrested
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> A Russian court has rejected opposition leader Alexey
Navalny's appeal for his release from jail. On Wednesday, police
raided his offices and the homes of his relatives and
associates. Navalny was arrested last week when he returned from
Germany, where he was being treated for poisoning.
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HTML https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Px0y4V8987o
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Re: Navalny protests
DIR By: guest5
Date: January 31, 2021, 2:12 pm
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Anti-Putin Protests Lead to Over 2,000 Arrests Across Russia
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> More than 2,000 people were arrested in Russian cities as a
government crackdown and travel curbs failed to stop supporters
of jailed opposition leader Alexey Navalny, a prominent critic
of President Vladimir Putin, from engaging in the second wave of
national protests in a week.
>
> Navalny, who defied threats of arrest to return from Germany
in mid-January after a nerve-agent attack that he said was an
attempt by Putin to kill him, has vowed to keep up the pressure
on the authorities even from behind bars. A Russian court is
preparing to hand him a possible 3 1/2 year prison term.
>
> Foot traffic around the Kremlin has been all but cut off
today, and seven central Moscow metro stations are closed,
according to a post on the Moscow Department of Transportation’s
Telegram channel. Around 300 people gathered for unsanctioned
protests near two metro stations along Moscow’s Garden Ring
road, according to an Interfax report citing local security
officials.
>
> The RIA news service reported that riot police broke up a
crowd of about a hundred protestors, making some detentions,
near Moscow’s Prospekt Sakharova, a popular rallying point for
political protests named for a Soviet-era dissident.
>
> Navalny and his allies were hoping to repeat the success seen
on Jan. 23, when they brought out tens of thousands of
supporters in more than 150 cities around the country despite
police bans. By 3 p.m. Moscow time on Sunday, more than 2,000
people had been detained in several Russian cities, according to
monitoring group OVD-Info.
>
> The authorities have warned against participation in the
protests and most of the Navalny aides who weren’t already in
prison were picked up this week and are now facing criminal
charges. Still, the Kremlin is worried by the scale of the
demonstrations and looking for ways to cool public discontent
that has been building up amid slumping incomes and the
coronavirus downturn, three people close to the government said.
>
> The Russian leader, 68, has been in power for more than two
decades, the longest rule since Soviet dictator Josef Stalin. In
July, Putin pushed through constitutional changes that would
allow him to stay as president until 2036. His support last year
dropped to a record low amid the Covid-19 lockdown, but
recovered a bit by November, according to the Levada Center.
>
> While he’s survived several previous waves of anti-Kremlin
protests, steadily tightening restrictions on public
demonstrations, the opposition is digging in for a long-term
struggle ahead of 2024, when Putin must decide whether to seek a
fifth mandate. Backers of Navalny say he’s turning into a potent
symbol of resistance in prison.
>
> Navalny, 44, was detained on Jan. 17 upon returning home from
Germany, where he recovered from a chemical poisoning during a
campaign trip to Siberia in August. His imprisonment drew
Western calls for his immediate release, including an appeal
this week in a phone call from U.S. President Joe Biden.
>
> After years of largely ignoring the anti-graft activist in
public, the Kremlin has begun trying to refute his allegations.
On Jan. 25, Putin denounced the protests as “dangerous” and
dismissed claims in a video released by Navalny that he owns a
giant $1.3 billion Black Sea palace. The almost two-hour clip
now has more than 100 million views. A pro-Kremlin online outlet
released a video Friday from the palace, showing it’s still
under construction, but Navalny’s allies said it was under
renovation after mold problems required a complete overhaul.
>
> On Friday, a Moscow court ordered Navalny’s brother Oleg and
two allies, Lyubov Sobol and Anastasia Vasilyeva, to be placed
under house arrest on suspicion of violating anti-Covid 19
restrictions. They have also opened a criminal case against one
of the opposition leader’s top aides, Leonid Volkov, alleging he
encouraged minors to participate in the unsanctioned protests.
The opposition leader himself is accused of violating probation
under a suspended sentence and faces new potential fraud charges
that could carry an additional a 10-year punishment.
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Re: Navalny protests
DIR By: guest5
Date: February 3, 2021, 1:10 am
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'Vladimir The Underpants Poisoner': Navalny Belittles Putin At
Court Sentencing
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> Rachel Maddow reports on the unrest in Russia over the
imprisonment of opposition leader Alexey Navalny, who insulted
Vladimir Putin and called on Russians to be courageous in
demanding a real democracy at his sentencing.
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HTML https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uYaNHg-zsm8
Even after Putin, Trump, and Netanyahu, etc. they still want
democracy. Instead of just wanting a great leader and statesmen
they continue to want the same system that keeps great leaders
and statesmen out of power.
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Re: Navalny protests
DIR By: guest5
Date: February 6, 2021, 12:24 am
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Russia expels EU diplomats, ignores call to free Navalny
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> Russia expelled diplomats from three EU member states it
accused of attending illegal protests in support of jailed
Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny, and pointedly ignored a public
call by the EU’s top diplomat to free the opposition politician
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HTML https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bO8KNqoYMCM
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