Jailed Russian politician Alexei Navalny has died in a penal colony, the country's prison service says.

Well, this was only a matter of time but still happened sooner than I’d expected.

    • Zombiepirate@lemmy.worldEnglish
      14·
      10 months ago

      The contrast couldn’t be more stark:

      Putin, by some accounts the world’s richest man, hid in a Moscow bunker while Navalny died for his beliefs that Russia could be better and work for her citizens.

      Putin sent a generation to die for his ego, while Navalny returned to Russia to die challenging that coward’s regime.

  • NocturnalMorning@lemmy.world
    15·
    10 months ago

    Some days I’m disappointed in the human race. And then there are other days where I’m really really disappointed in the human race, today is one of those days.

    This guy had a wife and kids, who now are fatherless, and all he wanted was to not live under a brutal oppressive dictatorship.

    • ComradeSharkfucker@lemmy.ml
      3·
      10 months ago

      He was a Russian fascist with well documented association with the neo-Nazis in the early 2000s then turned into a pro-Western liberal who opposes Putin.

      Edit: 2011 NY Times profile about Navalny (CW: racism):

      Liberals, meanwhile, have deep reservations about him, because he espouses Russian nationalist views. He has appeared as a speaker alongside neo-Nazis and skinheads, and once starred in a video that compares dark-skinned Caucasus militants to cockroaches. While cockroaches can be killed with a slipper, he says that in the case of humans, “I recommend a pistol.”

      Not to mention he voluntarily went back to Russia after believing they tried to have him killed. I don’t know what he expected

      Also the video of him being racist is still up on his personal YouTube channel to be clear. It is not a position he ever distanced himself from.