WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Donald Trump, who drew criticism as U.S. president for his praise of Russian leader Vladimir Putin, made his first public comment on the death of Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny on Monday in a social media post that cast no blame. "The sudden death of Alexei Navalny has made me more and more aware of what is happening in our Country," Trump wrote, appearing to link the death to his own political troubles. It was not clear what similarities Trump was trying to draw with Russia's most prominent opposition leader.
  • rdyoung@lemmy.world
    102·
    6 months ago

    Could you please provide some sources for this? This is the first time I am reading about this side of Nalvany.

    • Overzeetop@kbin.social
      4·
      6 months ago

      Make sure you read to the end of that article. Nevalny himself (NPR interview, maybe?) admitted that he has courted the far right as well as the left in his bid to expose corruption within the Russian system and gain enough support to attempt to topple the Putin regime. He is unapologetic about it as he feels his intent (to clean up Russia and push for democracy) justifies his acceptance of all Russians as fellow countrymen. Like most people seeking power, his path is not pure and his antagonists will use that to poison any positive message he presents.

      • kava@lemmy.world
        35·
        6 months ago

        that’s putting it lightly. calling all muslims “cockroaches” and calling for the deportation of all immigrants it’s exactly “courting the far right” he got kicked out of his party for being too far-right extremist and founded a nationalist organization right after. we can call that “courting the far right” or we can call that “being an instrumental leader of the far right”

    • kava@lemmy.world
      07·
      6 months ago

      ok. for one, read the wikipedia page but i suggest reading one that was edited before he died just because after he died there’s been a lot of changes

      https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Alexei_Navalny&oldid=1189517416#2011_parliamentary_election_and_protests

      some bits to back up what i said

      He was behind the 2006 Russian Nationalist march

      In late 2006, Navalny appealed to the Moscow City Hall, asking it to grant permission to conduct the nationalist 2006 Russian march.

      This was essentially a giant protest against immigrants. There were many neo-nazis including people holding swastikas. if you look around long enough, you’ll find a find of navalny there with some swastikas behind him. i can’t find the video right now but i found some images of the russian march which should be enough to show there were neo-nazis there

      please see following images i’ve placed into an imgur album: https://imgur.com/a/m5JQxIH

      he founded this organization: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Russian_Liberation_Movement

      National Russian Liberation Movement, which made anti-immigrant its main policy. During this period of time he would make certain statements like

      “muslims are cockroaches that need to be exterminated” “immigrants are like cavities, you need to pull them out” etc

      “Everything in our way should be carefully but decisively removed through deportation,” Navalny said in a video dressed as a dentist, comparing immigrants to dental cavities.

      here’s an article that goes more in depth: https://jacobin.com/2021/01/alexei-navalny-russia-protests-putin

      while it’s true that the Russian regime has illegally restrained him - they arrested him, tried to poison him, and ultimately killed him - but he was still a neonazi