Quote (duffman316 @ Dec 26 2022 08:01pm)
meanwhile in mordor, the usual treatment for anyone that doesn't fall in line with the rest of the orcs
https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/russias-navalny-accuses-authorities-using-prison-break-his-health-2022-12-26/Dec 26 (Reuters) - Jailed Russian opposition politician Alexei Navalny said on Monday he was suffering worsening back pain from long spells in solitary confinement that he said were part of a deliberate strategy by the authorities to undermine his health.
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Navalny is President Vladimir Putin's most outspoken domestic critic and a trenchant opponent of the war in Ukraine.
He required months of medical treatment in Germany after being poisoned with a nerve agent during a trip to Siberia in 2020. The Kremlin denied trying to kill him.
He is now serving sentences totaling 11-1/2 years on charges including fraud and contempt of court. Navalny, his allies and Western governments and rights groups say he was the victim of trumped-up charges designed to silence him.
And yet people will apologise for and justify Putins invasion as an act of defence against NATO.
Defending what? Everday Russians? Or himself?
Repression, autocracy, corruption and denial of political plurality.
A dictator could never allow a country so culturally similar to be free or democratic; unless Russia has subversive control over Ukraines president and its internal affairs.
Putin wanted Yanukovych to become another puppet like Lukashenko.
And yet Putin apologists will tell you the west organised a coup to remove him.
The truth is he was a corrupt nepotic puppet of the Kremlin.