Blogging of a hero of mine: Alexey Naval’niy

4 Jan

Navalny on Putin, Being Bugged and Revolution

“Aleksei Navalny rose to prominence as an anticorruption blogger with a special knack for turning a scathing phrase. The most devastating was his branding of United Russia, which supported Vladimir V. Putin’s candidacy for president, as “the party of swindlers and thieves” — which quickly became an unshakable catchphrase. Take a look through quotes by the Russian opposition figure. DEC. 29, 2014”

Wish I could make the screenshots bigger or the video play; just visit the page yourselves: “Navalny on Putin, Being Bugged and Revolution“

1 - Screen Shot 2015-01-03 at 8.11.21 PM2 - Screen Shot 2015-01-03 at 8.12.08 PM3 - Screen Shot 2015-01-03 at 8.13.08 PM4 - Screen Shot 2015-01-03 at 8.13.46 PM5 - Screen Shot 2015-01-03 at 8.14.22 PM6 - Screen Shot 2015-01-03 at 8.15.17 PM7 - Screen Shot 2015-01-03 at 8.15.54 PM8 - Screen Shot 2015-01-03 at 8.16.29 PMAnd this is the kind of shit he and others with the guts are up against in Putin’s Russia: “Aleksei Navalny, Putin Critic, Is Spared Prison in a Fraud Case, but His Brother Is Jailed“

By DEC. 30, 2014

MOSCOW — Hours after being spared prison on Tuesday in a criminal fraud trial widely viewed as political revenge, the Kremlin’s chief antagonist, Aleksei A. Navalny, broke out of house arrest and tried to join an unsanctioned antigovernment rally, daring the authorities to throw him in jail.

They refrained, but in a twist that clearly caught Mr. Navalny, the normally unruffled political opposition leader off guard, the court ordered that his younger brother, Oleg, who was also charged in the fraud case, serve three and half years in prison.

The jailing of the brother, a former postal worker generally viewed as a pawn in a larger battle, signaled that the Kremlin was adopting a heavy-handed strategy in seeking to suppress Mr. Navalny’s political activities by sidelining him without transforming him into a martyr.

“Aren’t you ashamed?” Mr. Navalny cried out in dismay at the young judge, Yelena Korobchenko, as she read the verdict.

“Why are you jailing him?” Mr. Navalny shouted, with tears in his eyes. “This is a dirty trick. To punish me more?”

Tags: , , , , , ,

Leave a comment