Russia, Putin's opponent Navalny dies
The news of Alexei Navalny's death is not surprising. Putin's main opponent had escaped death on August 20, 2020, when on board a plane bound for Moscow he was poisoned with tea. Then in January 2021 the arrest and in August 2023 19 year sentence for “extremism”to be served in one of the worst penitentiaries in Russia.
The Tsar closed another account after getting rid of Yevgeny Prigozhinleader of the Wagner private militia who had taken it into his head subvert the status quo.
Russian TV identified the cause of Navalny's death as “a blood clot”, more commonly known as thrombosis. “He paid with his life for his resistance to a system of oppression.” The French Foreign Minister does not mince words Stephane Sejournéaccording to which “his death in a penal colony reminds us of the reality of Vladimir Putin's regime”.
“After years of detention in a less than liberal prison regime, Russia is losing a free voice.” The comment of the Italian Foreign Minister Antonio Tajani is more prudent.
The unscrupulousness of the head of the Kremlin is surprising. And even more so the demand before world public opinion not to ask too many questions about its internal affairs. And the international arrest warrant hanging over his head matters little if in the other part of the world the regimes welcome the Tsar with open arms.
Pass the conflict in Ukraine, now reduced to an annoying theater of war at the end of the news, but the massacre of opponents, whether journalists or political activists, gives the feeling of having returned to the horror of the twentieth century.
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