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>Why are Fake News & Celebrities' Supporting a NAZI Sympathizer?
>Just Because he Goes against Russia
>doesn't make him a Good guy
Racist or revolutionary: The complex legacy of Alexei Navalny
Russian opposition activist Alexei Navalny takes part in a march in memory of opposition leader Boris Nemtsov in Moscow, Russia, on Saturday, Feb. 29, 2020.
By Sudesh Baniya
Published on 07/07/2023 - 07:00•Updated 07:16
Controversy surrounds some of what the Russian opposition leader - currently imprisoned in Moscow - has said in the past.
Alexei Navalny is a many-sided man.
The 45-year-old is a lawyer turned blogger, YouTuber, protest organiser, anti-corruption activist and face of Russia's opposition.
He is currently in prison in Russia on charges of extremism, which supporters say are politically motivated.
Speaking in court recently, Navalny added yet another face to his character by urging his fans to campaign against the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
What identity is paramount depends on who you ask, explains Jade McGlynn a researcher specialising in Russian politics at King's College London.
For Russian supporters – mostly social media-savvy young people – Navalny is a rare figurehead for anti-establishment feeling.
Many outside Russia came to know him from the Oscar-winning, self-titled documentary based on the events related to his poisoning with a nerve agent in Russia and the subsequent investigation in 2020.
That helped cement Navalny's identity as a powerful opponent of Vladimir Putin and elevated him in the eyes of the West. The Russian president refuses to refer to him by name even to this day, typically calling him "that gentleman".
'Not a Western liberal democrat'
Yet there is a darker side to him, some say.
Navalny's 'ideal' image conflicts with his past remarks, McGlynn tells Euronews, pointing to his controversial views on Muslims in the Caucasus, Georgians and Central Asian migrants in Russia.
"Immigrants from Central Asia bring in drugs [to Russia]," Navalny said in an interview in 2012, defending what he described as a "realist" visa requirement for "wonderful people from Tajikistan and Uzbekistan."
While he has reflected on some of these past remarks, they frequently re-surface, causing some to question if Navalny is what many in the Western world think he is.
Navalny's controversial statements stem from his political origins in the nationalist movement,according to McGlynn.
"He used to attend the Russian march, a very far-right nationalist group generally behind the slogan of 'Russia for ethnic Russians'.Anybody who expects Navalny to be an ideal Western liberal Democrat has been mistaken," she tells Euronews.
His ultra-nationalistsentiment was prominent in a video dating back some 17 years filled with xenophobic comments.
"Everything in our way should be carefully but decisively removed through deportation," Navalny said in the video dressed as a dentist, comparing immigrants to dental cavities.
Amnesty International stripped the opposition leader of the "prisoner of conscience" status based on this clip. It reversed this decision in 2021, recognising an "individual’s opinions and behaviour may evolve over time” in a statement.
>His ultra-nationalistsentiment
Kremlin cheerleaders have also sought to discredit Navalny, with Russia's state-owned RT channel publishing a thread by freelance columnist Katya Kazbek that blasted him as an "avowed racist" and accused supporters of "whitewashing" his nationalism.
'Nobody in Georgia cares what he thinks now'
Navalny has apologised in the past. But this has not been good enough for some groups outside Russia, particularly Georgians.
"The Georgian public felt betrayed by Navalny after the 2008 Russo-Georgian war," says Kornely Kakachia, Political Science Professor at Tbilisi State University.
"Everyone expected Navalny to be anti-Putin and anti-imperialist, but he supported the invasion."
Russia invaded Georgia in 2008, accusing its neighbour of committing genocide against Russian speakers in the border regions. Others say Russia actually invaded to further its geopolitical interests and assert regional dominance.
The European Court of Human Rights later penalised Russia in 2023 for human rights abuses, including civilian murders, looting, illegal detention and torture, during the fighting.
Kakachia says the Georgian public now perceives Navalny as in the same bracket as Putin, largely due to his support for the war and calling Georgias "rodents".
Navalny's lack of criticism of Russia's imperialistic policy has further bolstered the sentiment and "nobody in Georgia cares what he thinks", according to Kakachia.
"Georgian national interest is not wanting to be part of any new empire that derives from the old Soviet playbook. Navalny's comments indicate he's not against the regime in that regard," he adds.
His incendiary comments on immigrants and Georgians re-surfacedwhen Navalny's daughter, Dasha Navalnaya, was invited to speak at Georgetown University in May 2023.
Students filed a petition against the speaker selection, calling for a meritocratic appointment and that "being anti-Putin doesn’t imply being a pro-democratic, anti-war, and liberal leader."
Following the backlash, two new speakers were added by the university to diversify perspectives, refusing to "disinvite" Navalnaya.
Anti-corruption and the route ahead
Navalny's political ideology, however, doesn't impact his popularity within Russia, since his stance against corruption and oligarchs strikes the chord, McGlynn says.
"Not all Navalny supporters are pro-West. In fact, many of them are very angry, with countries like the UK and the US for facilitating that top-level corruption," she adds.
Despite the criticisms against him, Navalny's efforts to challenge Putin – an act that almost got him killed - is laudable, according to McGlynn.
"It was heroic to go back and investigate topics that are completely off limits relating to Putin's wealth and the wealth of the elite," she says.
Navalny has repeatedly accused Putin and his inner circle of "sucking the blood out of Russia," by developing Russia into a "feudal state."
Putin, on the other hand, has continuously dismissed Navalny and his Anti-Corruption Foundation (FBK), terming the movement a "boring pseudo-investigation."
The future route for Navalny in Russian politics depends on his release at a personal level, but the broader movement is what matters, McGlynn insists.
"There is definitely a populist streak [behind Navalny]," she says. "That means we are missing some other important actors and the political movement as a whole."
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Speech by Alexei Navalny at Russian march 2011, together with Russian neo-Nazi leaders
by
Voice of America
Publication date
2011-11-04
Topics
alexei navalny
Language
Russian
Alexei Navalny was one of the co-organizers in 2011 of the annual neo-Nazi "Russian March" in Russia. In the video, at 3:22, his speech on the stage, togheter with other neo-Nazi leader such as Vladimir Yermolayev (leader of the Movement Against Illegal Immigration - DPNI), or Dmitry Demushkin (leader of "Russkie" and former leader of the banned neo-Nazi "Slavic Union"), and Alexander Potkin (former leader of DPNI).
In late 2006, Navalny appealed to the Moscow City Hall, asking it to grant permission to conduct "Russian march".
https://archive.org/details/speech-alexei-navalny-russian-march-2011
muh holocaust
Alexei Navalny denies Holocaust
by
Pravda Report
Publication date
2013-08-29
Topics
Youtube, video, News & Politics,
The Jerusalem Post published an article that criticized the nationalist views of Russian blogger and candidate for mayor of Moscow Alexei Navalny. The reason for the article was the toast, pronounced by Navalny on the celebration of The New Times magazine: "The first toast to the Holocaust."
The Jerusalem Post also recollected Navalny's anti-Caucasian statements, his participation in "Russian marches" and his statement when he that "anyone who wanted to live in Russia should feel Russian."
As president of the World Congress of Russian Jewry Boris Spiegel believes, a man who runs for the mayor of Moscow, should not allow himself questionable jokes concerning the nationality of others.
Boris Spiegel, president of the "World Congress of Russian Jewry":
"Do you want me to tell you straightforwardly what I think about it? I think that such an individual should be in a mental hospital. I believe that a person, who he wants to take a high political position, who goes into politics and wants to become the mayor of Moscow , he must understand what the Holocaust is. Firstly, when he speaks about it, he does not know what the Holocaust is. He should understand that Russia is a country that defeated Nazism. So the Holocaust is secondary, it was Nazism that appeared first, the Nazi ideology that wanted to conquer the world, and the Holocaust was one of the ideological programs of Nazi Germany at the time. Therefore, a person who wants to become the mayor of Moscow, should understand in the first place that Russia, and Moscow in particular, is a great multi-ethnic state.
The people, who are engaged in nationalism, the most important thing for them, probably, is that they are trying to build their policy on this. They do not understand that they lead their people to a catastrophe. Why is that so? Because inciting hatred between citizens of their own country always leads the country to destruction. Here's how one may evaluate the words of this man, whom I can not even call a politician."
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> Alexei Navalny denies Holocaust
Russia Finds a War Critic Guilty of ‘Spreading False Information’
Ilya Yashin, who pleaded not guilty, is among the highest-profile opposition politicians remaining in Russia.
Ilya Yashin, a Russian opposition politician, in a glass cubicle in a Moscow court on Friday.Credit…Pool photo by Yury Kochetkov
Ilya Yashin, a Russian opposition politician, in a glass cubicle in a Moscow court on Friday.
Valerie Hopkins
By Valerie Hopkins
Dec. 9, 2022
MOSCOW — A Russian court on Friday sentenced an opposition politician, Ilya Yashin, to eight and a half years in prison after finding him guilty on charges of “spreading false information” about atrocities committed in the Ukrainian city of Bucha by Russian troops in February and March.
Judge Oksana Goryunova also ordered that Mr. Yashin be barred from using the internet for four years. Prosecutors had requested a sentence of nine years.
Mr. Yashin, who pleaded not guilty, is among the highest-profile opposition politicians remaining in Russia. Before his arrest in July, he spoke about the war on his YouTube channel, often voicing criticism of President Vladimir V. Putin and his “special military operation.” While many Putin critics have fled Russia, especially immediately after its invasion of Ukraine, Mr. Yashin vowed to remain, even if it meant serving prison time.
Prosecutor Sergei Belov told the Meshchansky District Court in Moscow that Mr. Yashin had spoken “indiscriminately” about the coverage of the war by the Russian news media, and instead cited news produced by outlets from “unfriendly states: the United States and its satellites” that “supply instructors and weapons to Ukraine.”
The verdict against Mr. Yashin, who served in the Krasnoselsky district of Moscow, is the latest example of the Kremlin’s far-reaching attempts to silence any criticism, especially of its invasion of Ukraine.
In July, Alexei Gorinov, a deputy in the Krasnoselsky council, received a prison sentence of seven years on the same charge of knowingly spreading “false information” about the Russian army. Mr. Gorinov was sentenced for comments he made in March during a meeting of the local council when he suggested that a planned children’s drawing contest be postponed while children in Ukraine were dying.
In court on Friday, Mr. Yashin stood handcuffed in a glass cage, waving to supporters and making a peace sign, according to witnesses.
After the announcement, Mr. Yashin posted a defiant statement on the Telegram messaging app.
“So, the court sentenced me to 8 years and 6 months in prison,” he wrote. “Well, the authors of the verdict are optimistic about Putin’s prospects. In my opinion, way too optimistic.”
Mr. Yashin compared the process to a Soviet show trial and said the prosecutor was trying to imitate his predecessors from the Stalinist period, when millions of people were sent to labor camps or shot as enemies of the state.
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“With this hysterical verdict, the government wants to intimidate us all, but in fact it only shows its weakness,” he wrote. “Strong leaders are calm and self-confident, and only weaklings seek to shut everyone up, burn out any dissent. So today it only remains for me to repeat what was said on the day of my arrest: I am not afraid, and you are not afraid.”
The verdict came on the heels of a decision Wednesday to declare Vesna, an antiwar movement, “extremist” in closed-door proceedings. Vesna was among the organizations that called for protests after the war began in February, and again in September after Mr. Putin announced the drafting of hundreds of thousands of men into the military.
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/09/world/europe/russia-ilya-yashin-court.html
<>Navalny is distraction
<>don't take the bait
yeah, ok
how boutnah
Original Message
From: Nuland, Victoria J
Sent: Sunday, May 06, 2012 01:46 PM
To: Sullivan, Jacob J
Subject: Fw: Protest in Moscow, Russia Update 5
Subject: Protest in Moscow, Russia Update 1
Between 10-20,000 protesters (police estimate around 8,000, independent media 20,000) turned out for the "million-
man march" in Moscow today.
==The crowd, made up of a variety of groups including Left Front, Solidarity, anarchists, and a few nationalists, among
others, is now filing into Bolotnaya square now==, sight of previous demonstrations. Protesters are demonstrating against
what they perceive to be the illegitimate election of Putin and tomorrow's inauguration. Numbers may increase at
Bolotnaya.
-Emb observers report no confrontations as of now, but there is a heavy police presence at Bolotnaya and around the
Kremlin and Manezh sq, where some of the protesters have promised to go after Bolotnaya. Media reports several
detentions of protesters carrying tents.
-opposition leaders Udaltsov, Navalny, Nemtsov, and Yashinhave called for a "sit-in", sitting along with several hundred,
threatening not to leave.
RESPONSE
-Simultaneously, authorities have organized a pro-Kremlin rally of the All-Russia Popular Front. Organizers promise up to
50,000. Some reports that participants may be being bussed in by state enterprises. The Patriarch appeared appealing
to supporters to not believe "those who promise something new, which no one knows
> https://foia.state.gov/Search/Results.aspx?searchText=(alexei%20navalny)%20AND%20(nuland)
>>20436241, >>20436246, >>20436293, >>20436344 The complex legacy of Alexei Navalny
>>20436444 (2022) Russian court sentenced an opposition politician, Ilya Yashin, to eight and a half years in prison for 'misinformation'
>The crowd, made up of a variety of groups including Left Front, Solidarity, anarchists, and a few nationalists, among
At the same time they were planning the coup in Ukraine, they were trying to color rev Russia.
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From:Sullivan, Jacob J<SullivanJJ@state.gov
Sent: Sunday, May 6, 2012 1:56 PM
To:
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FYI
Original Message
From: Nuland, Victoria J
Sent: Sunday, May 06, 2012 01:46 PM
To: Sullivan, Jacob J
Subject: Fw: Protest in Moscow, Russia Update 5
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>some kind ofanti FOIA shenanigans??
H doesn't show in a text search. So I would guess wouldn't hit in a foia records search
Same Playbook vs Putin as they ran at Trump when Vlad became president.
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Vladimir Putin's return to presidency preceded by violent protests in Moscow
This article is more than 11 years old
More than 250 people detained, including protest movement leaders, in 'March of Millions' against inauguration
Sun 6 May 2012 14.45 EDT
Protesters clashed with riot police in Moscow on Sunday in the most violent demonstration yet against Vladimir Putin's rule, on the eve of his return to the presidency.
At least six protesters and three police officers needed hospital treatment, and dozens more were slightly injured. Protesters pelted officers with beer bottles and rocks. Riot police responded with an overwhelming use of force, beating the crowd with batons and dragging people into waiting arrest vans, sometimes by the hair.
More than 250 people were detained, including some of the protest movement's main leaders – the anti-corruption activist Alexey Navalny, the leftist activist Sergei Udaltsov, and the former deputy prime minister Boris Nemtsov.
Prosecutors said they would investigate whether the men had provoked the violence at the protest, a charge that carries up to 10 years in prison.
The protest began peacefully as more than 20,000 Russians took to the streets in Moscow in a planned "March of Millions" designed to express anger at Putin's inauguration on Monday. Shouts of "Putin is a thief" were heard through the streets. Many people came from other cities in Russia, where the protest movement is less strong.
They marched towards Bolotnaya Square, one of Moscow's main protest sites. As the square began to fill, riot police four rows deep blocked their path, causing anger among protesters who shouted "This is our city" and "Police, be with the people, not with the freaks"
"Look how scared Putin is of us," said Nigina, a 40-year-old accountant standing off with the riot police.
Police blocked off the city centre and shut metro stations, and military vehicles were stationed around the Kremlin and along the river banks. At the same time, protesters at Bolotnaya began marching towards the Kremlin, while riot police moved in to block them.
> https://www.theguardian.com/world/2012/may/06/vladimir-putin-presidency-violent-protests-moscow
>Racist or revolutionary: The complex legacy of Alexei Navalny
> Speech by Alexei Navalny at Russian march 2011, together with Russian neo-Nazi leaders
>Alexei Navalny denies Holocaust
>Russia Finds a War Critic Guilty of ‘Spreading False Information’
>Ilya Yashin
>From: Nuland, Victoria J To: H Subject: Protest in Moscow, Russia Update
>At the same time they were planning the coup in Ukraine, they were trying to color rev Russia.
>So when you copy pasta the PDF, the H is hidden. Note below it's To: [blank]
>H doesn't show in a text search. So I would guess wouldn't hit in a foia records search. anti FOIA shenanigans?
if only you knew