1260: Navalny condemned. @PaulR_Gregory @HooverInst
Image: On the Sea of Okhotsk, Russian Far East Navalny condemned. @PaulR_Gregory @HooverInst Paul Gregory: @PaulR_Gregory, @HooverInst, in re: Alexei Navalny in Penal Colony No. 2, most similar to gulags. Live collectively in a hut, cook your own meals. Community is run as a gang by “activists.” Warden fully knows the abuse. Goal is to break your will, and totally isolate you from the outside world—and Navalny is an inspiration for a movement for liberty and against Putin. Navalny’s vision is of a federal system: he was visiting cities all across Siberia to set up a network teaching how the population can vote: to detect pro-Putin candidates (who are now concealing that fact). This could create a true federal system. US imposed sanctions against seven senior Russian officials and fourteen entities for having tried to poison and kill Navalny Sanctions are poorly chosen. Navalny’s group said: The only way to help is to stop Nordstream 2, but Biden hasn't done anything like that. Severe limits on Navalny’s lawyers, who cannot visit. Navalny may die in prison; sudden illness, suicide, something. National protests, in hundreds of Russian cities, have still not yielded huge demonstrations within Moscow. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/01/world/europe/navalny-prison-russia.html