Today is the birthday of Russian opposition activist Alexei Navalny, who turns 45.
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Does anyone know how's he doing? Our media has very short attention span and he could be dead by now and nobody would know
He's still in jail and now his organization is being disbanded by the government.
I think even if he survives prison he will not be allowed to hold rallies or post videos. He has pretty much lost at this point, in the short term at least.
I think he tried to take advantage of the Covid economic issues and EU support to try and stir up mass discontent in Russia, but the results were too limited. He was also hoping to impact the regional 2021 September elections, but didn't count on the Russian government completely barring his organization from participating in politics under the new extremist laws.
What I heard recently is that they are pressing new charges against him - aka most likely even longer jail time for him. There is no way that those charges will be dismissed. Just curious to see if they will give him like 2-10 years more and they will keep repeating the same process every decade to add more and more jail time or just slap him immediately with +65 years.
In the end 1 thing is sure- Navalny is not gonna see daylight unless the people in Russia manage to overthrow Putin- which I hardly doubt is gonna happen either sadly.
He appeared in front of a judge about a week ago via a video uplink looking emaciated. He wanted to complain about his treatment which seems unnecessarily harsh. Predictably it's fallen on deaf ears.
He's currently being tortured by sleep deprivation. They wake him up 8 times during the night to check if he hasn't commited a jailbreak since during the court it was decided that Navalny has a "tendency" to jailbreak. Recently Navalny and his team tried to argue this case in the court but it didn't work out. The judge was fixed no doubt. The court lasted for 15 minutes and when the judge was reading out the conclusion it seemed like she was seeing it for the first time.
Heās little better now after getting access to medical help. Lawyers visit him from time to time so heās very alive and keeps posting on Instagram (no idea how that works)
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His 46th celebration would be held in a cozy village in the middle of Siberia with the protection of KGB personnel
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