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Democracy Chronicles

Navalny Walks in the Footsteps of the Great Russian Dissidents

by DC Editors - February 28, 2021

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Navalny Walks in the Footsteps of the Great Russian Dissidents
Alexei Navalny – Image source

 Kennedy Lee and Shay Khatiri had this article in The Bulwark:

A month ago, Alexei Navalny was global news. After months recuperating in Germany from a botched assassination attempt by his own government, he bravely returned to Russia to stand trial for, of all things, failing to report his location to the police because he was in a coma after Vladimir Putin’s security services tried to kill him. Last week, Navalny stood trial again.

Yes, that’s right: No sooner did one Navalny trial end than another began. While serving his three-year prison sentence handed down in January after what Europe’s top human rights court deemed a politically motivated prosecution, Navalny again stood trial, this time for supposedly slandering a World War II veteran. This prosecution was as farcical as the previous one, and Navalny was again found guilty.

Unfortunately, hardly anybody outside Russia seems to have noticed. Google searches for the term “Navalny” in the United States peaked between January 17 and 23, but have since declined to just 11 percent of their high. Amnesty International even stripped him of his “prisoner of conscience” status, which, while largely a technical distinction, doesn’t help his cause. As Navalny suffers his latest persecution-by-prosecution, news media in the free world must not allow their audiences to forget him.

Read the full article here.

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Filed Under: International Democracy Tagged With: Alexei Navalny, Democracy Protests, Election History, Europe, Political Dissidents, Russia

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  1. Jack Jones says

    March 1, 2021 at 3:32 pm

    Thanks for publishing ! Alexei Navalny has been on my mind . This brave soul needs and deserves our support . I appreciate that you guys are generating this great leader some media attention that we truly need to promote democracy !

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