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MOSCOW, Feb 16 (Reuters) - Russia's most prominent opposition leader Alexei Navalny collapsed and died on Friday after a walk at the "Polar Wolf" Arctic penal colony where he was serving a long jail term, the Russian prison service said.
originally posted by: ufoorbhunter
a reply to: Threadbarer
Rather than jumping to conspiracy theories one has to take note that men do die pretty young in Russia. It's an unhealthy society for males.
originally posted by: CriticalStinker
originally posted by: ufoorbhunter
a reply to: Threadbarer
Rather than jumping to conspiracy theories one has to take note that men do die pretty young in Russia. It's an unhealthy society for males.
I’ll be curious to see the info as it comes out.
But I think it’s following trends more than jumping to conclusions considering he’s previously been poisoned.
Everything from wars to the weather gets blamed on Putin.
I’ll be curious to see the info as it comes out.
But I think it’s following trends more than jumping to conclusions considering he’s previously been poisoned.
originally posted by: Freeborn
a reply to: ufoorbhunter
Everything from wars to the weather gets blamed on Putin.
Probably because he's a de facto dictator with a proven track record of eliminating all opposition to him.....and he's a complete twat.
But was he previously poisoned?
Alexei Navalny, the Russian opposition leader and prominent Kremlin critic, was poisoned, according to a statement from a hospital in Berlin on Monday.
“The specific substance is not yet known,” the Charité hospital said, but it is thought to be a cholinesterase inhibitor — a group that affects the central nervous system, and includes nerve agents and pesticides. Navalny “is in an intensive care unit and is still in a coma,” the statement added, “but there is currently no acute danger to his life.”
Navalny’s spokesperson Kira Yarmysh wrote in a tweet, “The poisoning of Navalny is no longer a hypothesis, but a fact.”
www.politico.eu...
originally posted by: ufoorbhunter
originally posted by: CriticalStinker
originally posted by: ufoorbhunter
a reply to: Threadbarer
Rather than jumping to conspiracy theories one has to take note that men do die pretty young in Russia. It's an unhealthy society for males.
I’ll be curious to see the info as it comes out.
But I think it’s following trends more than jumping to conclusions considering he’s previously been poisoned.
But was he previously poisoned? Who knows the truth coming from our MSM. Lets check the facts then draw a conclusion
originally posted by: Kenzo
a reply to: ufoorbhunter
Navalny was deliberately brought to a state of near death that it makes no difference. it was always Putin's intention that he should die, like all the other opposition figures Putin threw into prison after his goons failed to murder them. Let's not get distracted from that with a debate on exactly how he died, murder is the system which has been used all the years Putin has been in power .
originally posted by: Freeborn
a reply to: ufoorbhunter
Everything from wars to the weather gets blamed on Putin.
Probably because he's a de facto dictator with a proven track record of eliminating all opposition to him.....and he's a complete twat.
Thoughts on the 10’s of 1000s of Ukrainian nationalists that are currently celebrating Navalny’s death?
Since his near-fatal poisoning in Siberia last August, many headlines, opinion columns, and talk shows in Ukraine have posed what they put as a central question: Is Navalny good for Ukraine?
Speaking on Ukrainian television shortly after Navalny was arrested upon return to Russia last month, Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba supported protesters' calls for his release and echoed a sentiment shared by many of his compatriots, saying, "the enemy of my enemy is my friend."
Yet he also cautioned against romanticizing Navalny as a figure and insisted he would need to apologize on behalf of his country and work to return Crimea if he were to end up in a position of power.
"There should be no illusions here," Kuleba said.
www.rferl.org...