Jailed Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny is dead, the prison service of the Yamalo-Nenets region where he had been serving his sentence said on Friday.
Why now? Russian election coming up, I guess Putin wanted to (a) remind any possible opposition what happens when anyone aspires to be a leader other than Putin, and (b) remove the chance of Navalny doing something unpredictable that cascades into a problem.
Why now? Russian election coming up, I guess Putin wanted to (a) remind any possible opposition what happens when anyone aspires to be a leader other than Putin, and (b) remove the chance of Navalny doing something unpredictable that cascades into a problem.
I mean yeah, that’s a pretty good set of reasons. Navalny was often re-tried om trumped up charges as a threat to opposition parties.
Boris Nadezhdin is working on appealing the order preventing him from running.
And, since we know that Russia’s judiciary is independent and strong, we can trust that they’ll treat his appeal correctly.
Or they’d been starving, torturing and mistreating him for a long time and this is when his body gave out.