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2024-02-17 Caucasus/Russia/Central Asia

[NYPOST] Vladimir Putin
...President-for-Life of Russia. He gets along well with other presidents for life. He is credited with bringing political stability and re-establishing something like the rule of law, which occasionally results in somebody dropping dead from poisoning by polonium or other interesting substance. Under Putin, a new group of business magnates controlling significant swathes of Russia's economy has emerged, all of whom have close personal ties to him. The old bunch, without close personal ties to Putin, are in jail or in exile or dead from poisoning by polonium or other interesting substances...
’s fiercest critic, Alexei Navalny, died in a brutal penal colony Friday, having been locked up since returning home following a nerve agent poisoning widely assumed to have been an liquidation attempt.

The Russian opposition leader, a married father of two, was 47.

Russia’s Federal Penitentiary Service claimed that "the convict" collapsed and died after he "felt unwell" during a walk at the IK-3 penal colony in remote Kharp, about 1,200 miles northeast of Moscow.

However,
Switzerland makes more than cheese...
the US joined other nations in bluntly blaming warmongering Russian President Putin.

"If confirmed, this would be a further sign of Putin’s brutality," Vice President Kámala Harris
Former Oakland mayor Willie Brown's former mistress, now a senatrix from California former 2020 Dem presidential hopeful, and Joe Biden's wing nut...
said of hearing the "terrible news" while at a conference with other world leaders in Germany.

"Whatever story they tell, let us be clear — Russia is responsible."

Secretary of State Antony Blinken

...71st United States secretary of state and a leading light of the corrupt and inept Biden administration. He previously served as deputy national security advisor from 2013 to 2015 and deputy secretary of state from 2015 to 2017 under the corrupt and inept Obama administration. He advocated for the 2003 invasion of Iraq while serving as the Democratic staff director of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee from 2002 to 2008. He was a foreign policy advisor for the Biden 2008 presidential campaign. During his tenure in the Obama administration, Blinken helped craft B.O.'s policy on Afghanistan, Pakistan, and the nuclear program of Iran. We all saw how well each of those worked. After leaving government service, Blinken moved into the private sector, co-founding WestExec Advisors, a lobbying firm...
earlier said that Navalny’s "death in a Russian prison and the fixation and fear of one man only underscores the weakness and rot at the heart of the system that Putin has built."

"Russia is responsible for this," Blinken also said firmly.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky shared a similar message while speaking in Germany, where he was seeking further aid to defend against Russia’s nearly two-year-old invasion.

"It is obvious that he was killed by Putin," he said.

"Putin doesn’t care who dies — only for him to hold his position. This is why he must hold onto nothing. Putin must lose everything and be held responsible for his deeds."

EU Council President Charles Michel said the European Union
...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing...
holds the Russian regime "solely responsible."

"Alexei Navalny fought for the values of freedom and democracy," Michel said in a post on X. "For his ideals, he made the ultimate sacrifice."

Latvian President Edgars Rinkevics likewise did not mince words, saying Navalny was "brutally murdered by the Kremlin."

"That’s a fact and that is something one should know about the true nature of Russia’s current regime," Rinkevics wrote on X. "My condolences to the family and friends."

Posted by Fred 2024-02-17 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11156 views ] Top
File under: Tin Hat Dictators, Presidents for Life,

#1 He never should have come back to Russia

Posted by Spereger Darling of the French9954 2024-02-17 01:47|| 2024-02-17 01:47|| Front Page Top

#2 I doubt 1/10 Russians ever heard of Navalny.

Posted by Grom the Reflective 2024-02-17 03:00|| 2024-02-17 03:00|| Front Page Top

#3 In a Levada Center poll carried out from 29 January to 2 February 2021, 26% of Russian adult respondents said that they saw the film [about Putin's palace], 10% said that they did not see it but were familiar with its content, 32% said they heard about it, and 31% said they did not hear anything about it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Putin%27s_Palace_(film)

There might be a few babushkas in forest huts who haven't heard about Navalny, but that's it.

Posted by European Conservative 2024-02-17 06:08|| 2024-02-17 06:08|| Front Page Top

#4 Sighs of envy at the DNC building in DC.

Posted by Procopius2k 2024-02-17 06:18|| 2024-02-17 06:18|| Front Page Top

#5 #3 31% said they did not hear anything about it. =?= few babushkas in forest huts

Give it up EC. He's a Western celebrity. Russia has hundreds of cheap demagogues like this.

Posted by Grom the Reflective 2024-02-17 07:06|| 2024-02-17 07:06|| Front Page Top

#6 Nerve agents, tea poisonings and plane crashes: How Putin's enemies have met their demise in suspicious circumstances over the years

Nothing of falls?

Posted by Skidmark 2024-02-17 07:35|| 2024-02-17 07:35|| Front Page Top

#7 From the article:

"From polonium-laced tea to unexplained plane crashes and dramatic falls from windows, these are some of the ways Putin's opponents have met their demise in suspicious circumstances over the years. "

Posted by European Conservative 2024-02-17 07:46|| 2024-02-17 07:46|| Front Page Top

#8 Hillary provide some tips or technical advice?

But isn't it odd that Putin would bump a prisoner off weeks before an election?

Isn't also odd that an American journalist dies in Ukrainian custody, but the "Biden" Administration isn't concerned in the least?

Posted by DooDahMan 2024-02-17 12:37|| 2024-02-17 12:37|| Front Page Top

#9 @#5 - That Magnitsky fella was another celebrity with a huge thanks to Bill Browder.

Posted by DooDahMan 2024-02-17 12:39|| 2024-02-17 12:39|| Front Page Top

#10 #8 Which Clinton did he piss off? Or just Obama.

Posted by Woodrow 2024-02-17 18:23|| 2024-02-17 18:23|| Front Page Top

#11 Another pfalse pflag?

Posted by Canuckistan sniper 2024-02-17 20:50|| 2024-02-17 20:50|| Front Page Top

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