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| US and British ambassadors paid tribute to Navalny at a spontaneous memorial in Baku |
| 2024-02-21 |
| Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited. So brave. Baku is in Azerbaijan, which doesn't care about Russians. [KavkazUzel] The US and British ambassadors to Azerbaijan laid flowers at a spontaneous memorial to Russian oppositionist Alexei Navalny* at the monument to the Azerbaijani poet, victim of Stalinist repressions Huseyn Javid. As the "Caucasian Knot" reported, after the death of Alexei Navalny*, residents of Russian cities, including in the south of Russia, were persecuted for attempting to lay flowers at monuments to victims of repression. On February 16, the Federal Penitentiary Service for the Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug reported that Alexei Navalny died in a colony after his condition sharply worsened. In Tbilisi, Batumi and Yerevan in the evening of the same day, activists paid tribute to Navalny. A memorial to Navalny also appeared in Baku. The ambassadors of the United States and Great Britain, Mark Libby and Fergus Auld, laid flowers at the monument to the victim of Stalinist repressions, poet and playwright Huseyn Javid, at whom a memorial to Alexei Navalny spontaneously appeared. At the same time, the US Ambassador expressed condolences to the family of the deceased oppositionist on the embassy’s Facebook** account: “I express my deep condolences to the wife and family of Alexei Navalny. Freedom-loving people around the world will not forget his courage,” he wrote. British Ambassador Fergus Auld also expressed condolences over Navalny's death. “Today, together with US Ambassador Mark Libby, I laid flowers at the monument to Huseyn Javid to honor the memory of Alexei Navalny, who throughout his life demonstrated incredible courage in advocating for a better democratic future for Russia,” he wrote on the social network X*. Participants in a spontaneous action in memory of Alexei Navalny* gathered at the Russian Embassy in Armenia. Hundreds of people, mostly Russian migrants, came to honor the memory of the opposition politician, according to a video filmed by the Caucasian Knot in Yerevan. Let us note that a photograph of Navalny and bouquets of flowers brought by unknown people appeared at the monument to Hussein Javid on February 18. However, on the morning of February 20 (even before the arrival of the ambassadors), according to the observations of the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent, there were no flowers or a photograph of Navalny at the monument. Let us recall that Navalny’s death caused concern among Azerbaijani human rights activists about the fate of political prisoners in this country. The material of the "Caucasian Knot" " Navalny: Caucasian dimension " sets out the oppositionist's views on problems related to the Caucasus. In August 2020, Alexey Navalny fell into a coma after being poisoned at Omsk airport. Consciousness returned to him in Berlin, where Navalny was taken for treatment. Navalny said that Russian authorities were behind the attempt on his life. In January 2021, Alexei Navalny, who returned to Russia, was detained at Sheremetyevo airport. On February 2, 2021, the court sentenced Navalny to 3.5 years in prison; later new charges were brought against him and the term of imprisonment was increased. Political scientists recognized the rallies in his support, which took place in January 2021 throughout Russia, as the most massive in recent decades. Related: Alexei Navalny: 2024-02-20 Police reported on preventive conversations with participants in the protest in memory of Navalny Alexei Navalny: 2024-02-19 Your Government Needs You Angry At Foreign Tyrants So You Won't Notice The Ones Ruling You Alexei Navalny: 2024-02-18 Residents of Stavropol complained about mass arrests while laying flowers in memory of Navalny |
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