Navalny, one of the leading Russian voices against Vladimir Putin before he was locked up, has now been convicted of promoting "extremism."

A Russian " " court " " on Friday issued its verdict in a new case against jailed opposition leader Alexey Navalny, convicting the politician of promoting “extremism” and extending his time in prison by 19 years, according to Russian state media and his own team.

  • Jaysyn@kbin.social
    58·
    2 years ago

    When I found out that Navalny wasn’t against the invasion of Ukraine I stopped caring about what happened to him.

    Navalny advised Ukrainians not to deceive themselves: “Crimea will remain part of Russia and will never become part of Ukraine again in the foreseeable future”.

    He also said that when he becomes president of the Russian Federation, he will not return the semi-island to Kyiv: “Crimea is what, a sandwich with sausage to be returned here and there?”, - Navalny asked.

    Fuck Putin, fuck Navalny & fuck Russia in general.

    • iAmTheTot@kbin.social
      32·
      2 years ago

      Uh that seems like a pretty absolutist world view. You can simultaneously think that the invasion of Ukraine is terrible, and care that a Russian man is being jailed for nearly twenty years by a kangaroo court.

      • Jaysyn@kbin.social
        14·
        2 years ago

        He’s a Russian politician, I could care less about what happens to him, especially after reading his previous views on Crimea.

    • 1chemistdown@kbin.social
      30·
      2 years ago

      I’m not calling you a liar, but maybe misinformed.

      Russia’s prominent jailed opposition figure Alexei Navalny has lost an appeal against a nine-year prison term, but not before launching a scathing attack on the war in Ukraine.
      Condemning Vladimir Putin’s war as stupid, he said it was “like your courts, built entirely on lies”.

      “You will suffer a historic defeat in this stupid war that you started. It has no purpose or meaning. Why are we fighting a war?” he said.

      • DigitalTraveler42@lemmy.worldEnglish
        21·
        2 years ago

        I believe the person that you’re replying to is talking about how Navalny is inherently a Russian Nationalist and had previously expressed support for the invasion of Ukraine. Also, of course he’s going to rail against the guy who’s unjustly imprisoning him and shit all over Putin’s invasion.

      • Jaysyn@kbin.social
        9·
        2 years ago

        He’s against it now because it’s showing Russia as the alcoholic morons they are.

    • JohnDClay@sh.itjust.works
      6·
      2 years ago

      He can still be much better than Putin and support Crimea 2014. Not a good option, but a less bad one, and one that is dangerous to Putin.

    • elevenant@kbin.social
      2·
      2 years ago

      Do you have a source?
      At least a quick search on my side does not bring up anything in support of your statement.

    • NavalExplorer@sh.itjust.works
      2·
      2 years ago

      While the second quote is more telling, the first one is misleading. The only reason Ukraine has a shot at taking Crimea back is because Russia invaded.

      There was just no hope for Ukraine to retake it by force, and Russia under putin would never give it back voluntarily. Even not under Putin, the opinion would be such that this would be a difficult politically speaking. That’s what Navalny was commenting on with this quote.