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Re: Alexei Navalny's lawyers are arrested

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The official version spread by the propaganda is that his lawyers did not only what lawyers should do, but also helped him pass letters from the jail to the outside world and thus control his "terrorist" organization (Anti-Corruption Foundation). This counts as complicity and direct participation in the deeds of a "terrorist" organization.

I'm surprised he was able to make such statements for this long. I genuinely wonder why his captors even continue to let him live, when it seems like any post-2022 civil protest in Russia can and will be brutally repressed.

Have you seen pictures of him lately?

For some people that's worse than death. It's a clear message from Putin. Get in my way and you'll end up like him.

Not everybody is going to take that risk.

Re: Alexei Navalny's lawyers are arrested

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Putin had the lawyers of his primary opposition arrested, what a dictator.

We're lucky to live in the west where that kind of thing doesn't happen.

> We're lucky to live in the west where that kind of thing doesn't happen.

Was that a sarcastic comment or did you entirely miss out the whole Snowden affair ?

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm surprised he was able to make such statements for this long. I genuinely wonder why his captors even continue to let him live, when it seems like any post-2022 civil protest in Russia can and will be brutally repressed.

Have you seen pictures of him lately? For some people that's worse than death. It's a clear message from Putin. Get in my way and you'll end up like him. Not everybody is going to take that risk.

This, most people won’t

Re: Alexei Navalny's lawyers are arrested

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I have a huge respect for Navalny. They tried to murder him and after spending time in a German hospital he decided to go back knowing that they'll imprison him or try to kill him again.

>knowing

I think the risk was huge (personally I thought 50-70% at the time), but not 99% or something. Also (in my opinion) people don't take into account that alternative was irrelevance in exile, just look at what happened with Kasparov's popularity inside Russia, and he was a prominent opposition activist in 2011-2012.

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