The leader of the opposition to Putin’s dictatorial rule is Alexei Navalny. He has campaigned tirelessly and fearlessly against Putin and his corruption. Five months ago, Navalny was poisoned while flying back to Moscow and nearly died. He survived only because he was air-lifted to a German hospital where doctors saved his life and identified the poison, a Soviet-era military-grade chemical agent.
On Sunday, Navalny courageously returned from Berlin to Russia, despite Putin’s threat to detain him. He traveled with his wife Yulia. Navalny said he was a citizen of Russia and was looking forward to going home. His supporters waited for him at the main Moscow airport but the flight was diverted to another airport.
Standing in the airport after landing, Navalny told journalists, “This is the best day in the past five months.””Everyone is asking me if I’m scared. I am not afraid,” he added. “I feel completely fine walking towards the border control. I know that I will leave and go home because I’m right and all the criminal cases against me are fabricated.”
He was detained by local police as soon as he exited border control and was whisked away, without his wife or lawyer.
Trump’s good friend Vlad is a corrupt thug.
Last December, another critic of Putin returned from a year of political exile. He was sent to a remote and isolated Arctic outpost.
On a desolate archipelago in the Russian Arctic — so far from civilization that it was a Soviet nuclear bomb test site in the 1960s — sits a leaky metal hut shaped like a barrel with an icon and a photograph of President Vladimir Putin on the wall inside. There are no trees, no Internet, no landline or mobile phone connection and no water on site except for melted snow and ice. Hungry polar bears are all around. So the outpost at Cherakino seems a perfect place to revive the practice of political exile in Putin’s Russia, opposition leaders contend.
It’s here that Russia’s military sent one of the country’s most promising opposition politicians, Ruslan Shaveddinov, after security agents in black masks broke down his door and seized him from his home in December 2019...
Russian authorities have sent many other opposition members for compulsory military service in remote and harsh locations. The aim, Shaveddinov contended, is to deter political activism among a new generation, many of whom are alienated by Putin’s repression and attempts to curb Internet freedom. “With every year it gets worse and worse and there is less and less freedom,” he said. “There are more political repressions and more political prisoners, and fewer possibilities for the opposition to operate.
“The machine eats and destroys everyone,” he said, referring to Russia’s repressive security apparatus. He believes he was sent to the “botchka” to break him — “but I was not going to give them that gift…”
When he returned, Shaveddinov carried home a bag full of letters from supporters and well-wishers. A final digital footprint of his journey remains: The “botchka” was marked on Google Maps by supporters, nicknamed “Shaveddinov’s Gas Station,” attracting a bunch of five-star “reviews” that are actually messages of support. “There are bears. It’s cold. But the company is great,” wrote one supporter, Mikhail Samin.
Must be frustrating for Moscow’s Asset Governing America (MAGA), aka Vlad’s Agent Orange, that he can’t operate just the way his hero does.
Knock it off..Trump has been tougher on Russia and China than any president. You will soon learn how chummy Joey is with China as more and more of your constitutional rights disappear and jobs go overseas. Our economy will continue to dive and COVID…too good as a political crutch to give up. It is too useful as a moneymaker for the drug companies! Fauci will keep lockdowns going. Joe can’t think for himself. Forget about America First. FAAF
Way back in 1987, April, the new Soviet Ambassador to the United States (embassies are headquarters for spying and recruitment activities) stopped by Trump’s office and invited him for an all-expense-paid trip to Moscow aboard a KGB plane. You think that this happens to every American businessman? LOL.
Trump had a problem. He had gotten not “a small loan from my father,” as he has repeatedly said, but three quarters of a billion dollars. Then, he STUPIDLY invested almost all of it in casinos, which went bankrupt. No American bank would lend to him. So, he took another trip to Moscow, and when he came back, oligarchs close to Putin started showing up and buying Trump condos and residences for CASH, and suddenly Deutsche Bank, where Putin and his cronies had a lot of their money parked, suddenly was willing to loan Vlad’s Agent Orange close to a billion dollars. When he was bankrupt. When no other bank would touch him.
And then he announced his candidacy and literally, in public, called upon Russia to hack his opponents’ email, which they did. And Vlad set the GRU to work on a MASSIVE public disinformation campaign on social media to discredit Trump’s opponent and to pump up their boy. This is all detailed in a report by the Senate committee CHAIRED BY A TRUMP REPUBLICAN, Richard Burr of North Carolina.
So, throughout his presidency, Moscow’s Agent Governing America, Donnie the Traitor, has delivered and delivered and delivered for his handler, Vladimir. he has trashed every traditional American alliance. He has repeatedly told staff members that he wants us out of NATO. He unilaterially, and against the FIRM ADVICE of his military leaders, pulled us out of Syria by freaking tweet at 2:00 in the morning, leaving Northern Syria to the Turks and the Russians and totally abandoning our allies, the Kurds, who had been instrumental in fighting ISIS. Trump has REPEATEDLY praised Putin in public and fawned over him at meetings. Trump divulged national security to Russian diplomats in a meeting in the Oval Office. He pulled us out of the Open Skies Treaty, which allows the US and Russia to fly over one another’s territories to verify compliance with nuclear treaties and cancelled REAGAN’S Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty (the INF) at the very time when Putin has fielded hypersonic nuclear missiles. And, of course, our ally, Ukraine, was at war with Russian forces that invaded the country. So Vlad’s Agent Orange, Donnie, called the Ukrainian President and told him that he was withholding military aid (to an ally at war!) unless they could deliver dirt on Trump’s opponent in the upcoming election. We know this because the entire conversation is on tape and we can read the freaking transcript in which he does just that.
Trump sold out to the Russians a long, long time ago. He is Vlad’s sniveling yes man and a traitor to his country, many, many times over.
And, Trump has delivered for Vlad by totally dividing the United States, trafficking in constant lies, trashing a free and impartial press, brainwashing his cult, encouraging paramilitary insurrectionists at state capitols, and, most recently, inciting a stupid, seditious, murderous mob to attack the heart of democracy.
Vlad certainly got his money’s worth for his ENORMOUS INVESTMENT in the Useful Idiot. There must be a lot of vodka being opened in the Kremlin right now, and a lot of laughter at the incredibly stupid Americans who took the Orange Fool, their guy, seriously.
So, basically, Trump was a FAILED BUSINESSMAN, an incompetent, who was bankrupt, with hundreds of millions in loans for his casinos coming due that the could not pay. He was going to lose everything out of sheer venality (casinos!) and stupidity. So he took another trip to Moscow, and the Russians bailed him out, for a little something something, which he delivered and delivered and delivered for them.
https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2017/11/19/trump-first-moscow-trip-215842
And it’s darkly amusing and troubling that the adjective that springs to your mind, April, is “tough.” Mr. Tough Guy. Cadet Bone Spurs. Of course, that adjective reflects no underlying reality. It’s utterly vague and has no referents in actual events.
About Trump’s “toughness” on China. Over and over and over again, this moron has said that “Chaiy-nuh” is paying us “billions” in tariffs because of his stupid trade war. But this ignorant man, the one who thought that stealth planes were actually invisible and that we could send astronauts to the sun and inject disinfectants, doesn’t know that when we place tariffs on imports from another country, those are paid by the companies doing the importing, and those costs are passed on to their customers. So, American companies and American consumers are the ones who are paying billions because of Trump’s trade war. But the man is utterly ignorant of economics and of government, so of course he thought something that stupid. And after he was, doubtless, corrected on the lie by advisors, he just kept repeating it. Because that’s what Trump does. If his mouth is moving, he is lying.
Oh, and the other big losers in Trump’s trade war? American farmers.
Oh, and April, Biden’s son served his country in the military. Trump’s sons simply indulged in serial murder of African wildlife. And Biden has, all his career, been a slightly right-of-center fellow. A moderate. Not a Socialist. And unlike Trump, he can’t even name a single Bible verse and thinks there is a book called Two Corinthians and makes fun of evangelicals to his staff the moment they walk out of his office, Biden is a practicing Catholic and always has been.
cx: unlike Trump, who can’t
Now that I look at it, that just about sums up Trump’s entire career. He can barely read. He can’t protect his country from a pandemic. He can’t run a business. He can’t hire (he’s a big “winner” in the department of people whose staff members quit in disgrace or disgust). You name it. He can’t do it.
Well, he is pretty good at cheating at golf, at tweeting in Toddler English, at mucking up everything he touches, at practicing demagoguery before yokels, at various cons (though he has been caught many times–barring black people from his apartments, running a fake university, diverting charitable funds for personal use, etc.), and at being a serial sexual predator and getting away with it.
“Trump has been tougher on Russia and China than any president.”
So, you admit that Trump hasn’t been a president (hasn’t acted like one)? Otherwise, the sentence would be “Trump has been tougher on Russia and China than any OTHER president HAS.” LOL.
Sorry, I couldn’t resist, April. We all make occasional errors in grammar and usage and punctuation in posts. Of course, we aren’t all THE BEST, A WINNER at it like our “Unpresidented,” as he put it in a Tweet, President.
Toddler English sometimes. Tween English at others.
April Featherweight’s comment, “Knock it off,” I must admit, almost caused a spit take this morning. Very funny. Keep the humor coming!
And we have lived under the appalling disregard of other humans lives of Donald Trump, who was concerned only with there being nothing to prevent him from arguing that he should be reelected because of “his” great economy (the recovering economy that the inherited from Obama, and the one t hat made the rich a lot richer while the poor struggled mightly via massive tax cuts for the wealthy and trashing of regulations that protect ordinary peoples lives, such as ones for clean air and water). This was, of course, why Trump first called the virus a hoax, then downplayed it, and refused to do anything substantive, such as imposing a federal mask mandate, using the Defense Production Act to speed up production of masks and other PPE, setting up a national tracking database, closing schools, etc. Instead, this callous moron held massive rallies and maskless superspreader events at his Whiter House, called himself a “wartime president,” swaggered around, promoted injecting disinfectants and taking hydroxychloroquine, and then took credit for the work of others–the speedy development of vaccines by various companies. Shameful and disgusting.
This alone was grounds for impeaching him–for utter incompetence–inability and unwillingness to discharge his duty as president to protect the people.
Is this the worst president in history? Well, a strong argument can be made for that.
Trump strutted about on stage, praising himself (that’s all he ever does), while lying to Americans about the seriousness of the disease (death and serious long-term side effects), promoting fake cures, and encouraging people to put themselves at risk by not wearing masks and not social distancing. And he politicized the CDC, leaning on it to issue misleading information to downplay the problem. But worst of all, he did almost nothing substantive to combat the pandemic but, rather, just blamed it on “Chaiy-nuh,” in his racist way. As a result of this, many, many Americans died unnecessarily, and their deaths are on him.
Bob,
It’s important to remember that Trump never had any interest in governing.
He liked opportunities to speak and spout his opinions.
He watched FOX.
He tweeted.
He golfed.
He hated briefings.
Governing bored him.
I am reminded of what George Kennan said when he saw the activities of the Soviets under Stalin: That the Soviets were behaving much as the Czars had behaved. So the Soviet Union goes away. But the Gulag stays. Small wonder that Orwell wrote that when you looked from pig to man you had a difficult time telling the pigs from the men. “We won’t get fooled again…” or will we….
This guy has some serious stones, as they say.
Diane, you might find this interesting: https://projects.propublica.org/parler-capitol-videos/
ProPublica has compiled hundreds of videos taken from people present at and around the Capitol riot, organized by time and location, and scroll-able. It’s an astonishing feat of journalism and technology.
Also, for incredibly chilling video, the New Yorker just released footage from a war correspondent, Luke Mogelson, that shows how scary and violent so many of those terrorists who invaded the capitol were. That inside look is of people who want to kill to get the white Christian state that they have been told is rightfully theirs.
white “Christian” state. Christian in name only.
White rush-ins?
Not one of you on this site knows anything about Russian politics that hasn’t been fed to you by the mainstream media. Ask yourself what they are feeding you and why because it could be as poisonous to your mind as Novichok. At the very least, do not simply accept mainstream sources as reliable without also seeking out alternate sources with an open mind. I don’t know any more about Russian politics that anyone else here, and I don’t care if you “believe” me or not because I’m not stating definitive facts. But I am strongly encouraging you to read all sources and make up your own mind. Do not assume that the MSM that cheerled us into the war in Iraq has any kind of pure motives and is necessarily a reliable source.
Start here for an alternate view: https://thegrayzone.com/2020/09/06/in-navalny-poisoning-rush-to-judgment-threatens-new-russia-nato-crisis/
Yes. Pray, do go on. Please do let us know your bona fides on Russian history and culture. We obviously do not have the inside track to Putin’s regime that you do. Do me a favor, cite an academic source. Strange how you won’t accept “MSM”, but will immediately accept any crank theory that buttresses your preconceived hate.
Hey, didn’t you know that Hunter Biden dropped off his laptop with a blind computer repairman and never got it, causing the blind repairman to find “evidence” that Joe Biden is more corrupt and evil than Trump?
The double standard is pretty outrageous. But she is already attacking Bernie Sanders and claiming Bernie is a liar now.
Are you trying out, here, a stand-up comedy routine, Dienne? If so, stick to your day job.
Further information: https://thegrayzone.com/2020/12/27/navalny-poisoning-cia-mi6-discredited-state-funded-bellingcat-play-key-role-in-accusing-russia/
Aaron Mate should always be a go-to source for matters involving Russia, Ukraine, Syria, etc., as he has spent a great deal more time and energy than any of us here researching those areas in depth.
What exactly are Aaron Mate’s credentials? I have searched the Internet and he seems to be a journalist.
I must be very gullible. I do not automatically discount and disregard whatever is printed in the New York Times, the Washington Post, CNN, and the BBC.
Is Navalny safe at home with his family or was he “disappeared” by Putin’s men?
Isn’t that the only question that matters?
Someone here has embraced fascism so fully that she thinks that because she is certain Putin didn’t poison Navalny, that means that Putin has the right to arrest Navalny for no reason except he doesn’t obey Putin.
Maybe she should ask herself why she thinks Putin would detain Navalny instead of letting him go with his family?
Fascism needs enablers like this person who will defend any outrage because they aren’t actually bothered when their favorite leaders commit neo-fascist outrages — they are only bothered when those people who commit neo-fascist outrages are accused of different neo-fascist outrages that they believe cannot be 100% proven.
It’s no different than Trump. Trump has committed many outrages that bother almost every single progressive, like Bernie and AOC and the squad. But there are a few on the left who aren’t at all upset at any of the horrible things Trump has done in plain sight — what upsets them is that they believe that Trump has been “falsely accused” of doing other things that they insist can’t be 100% proven. Can you imagine Bernie or AOC saying “How dare you talk about Trump teargassing peaceful BLM protesters for a photo op when what we need to talk about is how Trump is being “falsely accused” of kicking a dog, let’s talk only about how Trump gets falsely accused and how Trump is the real victim” That would never happen. It would never happen because the only people who talk like that are pro-Trump and those on the left who are so deluded that they think Trump is normal and no worse than the corrupt Biden and the corrupt Obama.
Putin has been supposedly “falsely accused” of something, and in the minds of Putin’s neo-fascist enablers, the focus should always be on the fact that people “can’t prove” some criticisms of Putin, while these same people suspiciously ignore the outrages Putin does in plain sight that never bother them as much as Putin being “falsely accused”.
I am saying prayers for you, Alexei Navalny. Such bravery.
There is a certain chivalry and sense of a larger purpose, isn’t there?
Also, prayers for Bobi Wine.
Honestly, Diane, I have to thank you for encouraging me to research this story more closely. This is better than anything Tom Clancy could have come up with even in a drug-fueled craze.
“Navalny asked [Konstanin] Kudriatsev [one of the members of the “FSB elite unit”] to provide assessments of all the team members, and to describe in detail what he had done. Kudriatsev explained that the nerve agent had been planted on Navalny’s “underpants” a full two days before Navalny went on the notorious flight to Moscow. (Kudriatsev could, in fact, not give a clear answer as to where they put the poison but Navalny, saying vaguely that it was “the trousers” or “underpants” but Navalny, CNN and Spiegel, apparently for the sake of a good story, chose to go with the “underpants.”)
“Navalny also asked whether “any more problems” had to be expected with traces of Novichok on the clothes of Navalny. “No,” Kudriatsev assured him, “we went there several times” afterward to “clean up.” CNN concluded triumphantly that the phone call had allowed them “to complete the picture of Navalny’s poisoning by the Russian state.”
“As Navalny himself stated in a video introducing the latest “revelations”: “this whole poisoning story is better than any Hollywood movie.” One might add that most script writers in Hollywood would have given more consideration to basic common sense and logic than those behind this bizarre parody of a spy crime.
“If the poison was planted on Navalny’s clothes two days earlier, why did he not fall ill earlier? Why did no one fall ill who came in touch with him at the airport, or on the flight if the clothes he wore were poisoned? After all, the alleged Novichok poisoning of the Skripals in Britain required the evacuation of entire buildings. And how could the nerve agent find its way from his underwear to a water bottle which suddenly appeared with traces of Novichok in a laboratory working for the German Bundeswehr weeks later? (Conveniently, CNN dropped the water bottle, which had suddenly appeared in the media narrative in September out of the blue, from its latest reports.)
“Why would Kudriatsev, member of an “FSB elite unit,” chat over a regular phone to an unknown man for over 45 minutes, describing in detail a supposedly massive operative failure of the FSB that had taken place almost four months ago and has since become the subject of enormous political tensions between Moscow, and the leading imperialist powers, including Germany, the US and France? And how could a man, who has supposedly followed Navalny and his blog for years, not recognize the latter’s voice over the phone?
“As if all of this was not enough, the Spiegel—which breathlessly reported on a “vacation sickness” of Navalny’s wife in the summer, which did not even last 24 hours, interpreting it as a possible attempt at Navalny’s life, and ascribed “muscle cramps” Navalny experienced while jogging to the ongoing impact of the nerve agent—now also suggested that “back in 2019,” Navalny was experiencing “similar symptoms” on another flight. But, we are told, they only lasted “15 minutes.”
“The Navalny story becomes even more farcical if one reads it alongside others of the anti-Russia campaign. While one attempt on Navalny’s life by the Russian state after another has failed miserably despite an enormous expense of resources, and while FSB officers seem not to mind chatting with strangers about operative secrets over the phone, the American and European public has been told, time and time again, over the past years, that the same Russian state is responsible for monumental hacks that have undermined the “integrity” of the US 2016 election, and almost brought down its cyber security system.”
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/12/23/nava-d23.html
LMAO. You can’t make this stuff up.
And, BTW, in case you want to impugn the reputation of WSWS, they are actually referring to and quoting from a story from Der Spiegel.
Correction: You CAN make this stuff up. And damaged, sick people will buy it, over and over again, as we see here and among the Idiot’s cult. So, to take this “thesis” to its logical conclusion, Navalny knew he was going to be poisoned, let it happen anyway, or–mind you–it was all a fake and the Berlin Charité University Clinic–one of the leading medical institutions in Europe if not the world–is in on the conspiracy. The magic loogie gets more magical with each passing day.
I read Der Spiegel about once a month (weekly in the the good old days when I could get hard copies). So when the breathless, victorious claim, “they are actually referring to and quoting from a story from Der Spiegel” was made, I decided to check on its stories on Nawalny (as his name is written in German). [Note that in the beginning of the “report” above, Der Spiegel was diminished “apparently for the sake of a good story” yet cited as an unimpeachable source by our correspondent.] Anyone can find them collected here: https://www.spiegel.de/thema/alexej_nawalny/
And as for the reference above to the response to the poisonings of the Skripals (and Alexander Litvinenko, who you conveniently ignored), those poisonings happened in England, where there was an interest in public safety. The Navalny poisoning happened in Russia, where there was not. It ain’t complicated.
It took me a short time to figure it out, but the breathless reference above is actually the opposite of what is being claimed here. It would kind of be like writing, “the evidence demonstrates the claim that Joe robbed the bank was false” and having it reported as “Joe robbed the bank.” Technically, the words “Joe robbed the bank” were used, but in a context that is the opposite of what was written. Here’s what was actually written (I’ll quote the original German in case anyone has quibbles with my translation): In einer ersten Version war von einem Giftgasanschlag auf Nawalny die Rede. Tatsächlich wurde er Opfer eines Giftanschlags. (my translation: In one of the first versions it was reported [or inferred] that there was a poison attack on Navalny. In reality, he was the victim of a poison attack.) The other articles do not veer from this conclusion. Indeed, the reports on what happened today are wholly consistent with the reports of other news outlets, even that dastardly source of disinformation, CNN. I must assume that Vladimir’s check is in the mail, he’s truly happy with you. But thanks to DeJoy, it may or may not arrive, but it will certainly be late. You’ll surely find a way to blame Biden or that sellout Sanders to “explain” the delay.
Some research advice. Basing one’s thesis on one source is a sure way to get a failing grade. On any test, standardized or otherwise. And honestly. Trotskyite? I’d get it if it were 1918 or 1928 or 1938. But in 2021? Seriously? Should we expect future posts on how windmills actually do cause cancer? Or that the ether actually explains the transmission of light? Now back to your Cocoa Puffs!
[One more example from planet Earth: The primary reason I (we?) are so attracted and devoted to Diane Ravitch’s views on education (dogs, religion, and theatrical music, not so much) is because she, like any good, competent, and open-minded scholar, does not stop researching once she comes across a citation that confirms her preconceived ideas. Indeed, from what I’ve been able to read, on the topics she researches, she had none. She lets the evidence form her conclusions, even when they don’t lead where she initially thought they might. That process confers legitimacy. Cherry picking does not.]
One thing I neglected to include: you conveniently left out the Putin quote, “If we had wanted to kill him, we would have finished the job.” As Arte Johnson used say:
Or perhaps John Banner’s Sgt. Schulz is more appropriate:
Greg:
Standing ovation.
Gosh, Dienne. You almost have enough of this stuff for your own HBO comedy special!
So when does Trump come out against Navalny? I’m assuming his “lawyers” are exploring possible ways his pardon power can be extended to exculpate the squad of would-be Russian assassins?
Two more days. Two more. Then the flood of indictments of the Teflon Don.
And the long, hard work of cleaning up the godawful mess that the Jabba has left in his slithering wake.
Update: Today Navalny was sentenced to held for 30 days in a “trial” that took place in the jailhouse where he is being held. According to a German report, he is expected to be “tried” at the end of month again. The expectation is that he will get at least 1,490 days, 3 1/2 years. I wonder of awareness of imminent poisoning will be one of the charges.
But remember, some self-described “progressives” (really they are deluded followers of the reprehensible Putin apologist Caitlin Johnstone) say that this is absolutely unimportant and don’t want to talk about that, because the real “evildoers” are those who “falsely” accused the poor, victimized Putin of poisoning, when there isn’t a shred of evidence that they accept as true.
Don’t ya know that Putin is the real victim here? Just like they kept insisting Trump was the real victim of false accusations when he was impeached.
”Everyone is asking me if I’m scared. I am not afraid,” he added. “I feel completely fine walking towards the border control. I know that I will leave and go home because I’m right and all the criminal cases against me are fabricated.”
Nothing to worry about! Clearly he plans to ask Putin for a pardon.😀
Putin is absolutely horrible, but we should allow ourselves to be tricked by the CIA into thinking Nazi Navalny is a “good guy.”
Very much like the US ruling class has convinced a lot of people that fascist golpista Juan Guaidó or Nazi Jeanne Áñez were legitimate leaders of Venezuela and Bolivia, respectively.
Two things can be bad, and this is a clear example of it.
I think that David Duke is a bad guy. It never occurred to me that it was okay for the US president I liked to lock him up without a real trial. Or poison him. And it never occurs to me to say “well if they can’t prove that the US President tried to poison David Duke, then it’s okay for the president to lock up David Duke” so shut up and stop criticizing that the president is locking up David Duke and start joining me in condemning those “falsely accusing” the president of trying to poison David Duke.
^^^but I should add that you are correct that it is important to understand exactly who Navalny is.
I hope you agree that if it unacceptable for the government to murder dissidents. I don’t know Navalny’s political views. I do know that Putin tried to poison him. Putin has a bad habit of murdering dissidents and journalists. Surely they are not all “Nazis.”
This article in The Atlantic leads me to believe that Navalny is certainly not a Nazi, as you suggest, and that the politics are more complicated than either of us know.
https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2013/07/is-aleksei-navalny-a-liberal-or-a-nationalist/278186/
Whatever happens to Navalny, I hope that Russia someday has fair elections, that dissidents no longer fear being murdered, and that we no longer have a president who is obsequious to Putin.
Before the State Department began it’s propaganda campaign in favor of fascist Navalny, the US corporate media was honest about what he was. From Time Magazine, December 29, 2011:
http://content.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,2103203-2,00.html
Putin and RT (Russia Today) are running a propaganda program to discredit Navalny.
Putin’s critics are all dead or in prison.