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[photo] Police officers detain a woman who laid flowers for Alexei Navalny in St. Petersburg (lemmy.world)

submitted 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) by nrzzrn to c/[email protected]

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Police officers detain a woman who laid flowers for Alexei Navalny at the Memorial to Victims of Political Repression in St. Petersburg, Russia on Friday, Feb. 16, 2024.

Russian authorities say that Alexei Navalny, the fiercest foe of Russian President Vladimir Putin who crusaded against official corruption and staged massive anti-Kremlin protests, died in prison. He was 47. (AP Photo)

https://newsroom.ap.org/editorial-photos-videos/detail?itemid=4d98d9afaf84439aa6c35cc824bd6dfc&mediatype=photo

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[–] [email protected] 108 points 10 months ago (5 children)

Wait but Tucker Carlson told us Russia was an amazing place, better than America!

[–] [email protected] 37 points 10 months ago

Let this fucker fade away into obscurity, please.

[–] daft61lunacy 30 points 10 months ago

That guy can stay there if he likes it so much.

[–] Ghostalmedia 24 points 10 months ago

Go to jail if you speak out against the president, BUT, there is a nice chandelier in a subway station.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 10 months ago

Lol, that bit where he praised their grocery store prices was insane. The average American makes over 300% what the average Russian makes in terms of salary.

That guy has dogshit for brains.

[–] [email protected] 73 points 10 months ago (5 children)

Why even have a memorial if you can't visit it and pay respects?

[–] [email protected] 107 points 10 months ago

[–] Ghostalmedia 64 points 10 months ago

The Navalny memorial at the Wall of Grief is makeshift.

People are paying tribute to him there because the wall is a monument to Stalin era political persecution and Putin is basically doing the same shit.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 10 months ago

As a honeypot to arrest dissenters just like they're doing.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 10 months ago

I'm not even sure how to define how self-satirical it is that they made a monument to the political victims of repression, which is now where they authorize any kind of demonstration if one is ever allowed, and it's also the spot where they arrest everyone. It's straight out of a joke.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 10 months ago (1 children)

It's nice to see that despite our many differences, some thing unite all of us.

ACAB no matter where you live.

[–] HootinNHollerin 13 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

They’ve arrested like 400 ppl across 30 cities, so far

[+] [email protected] -22 points 10 months ago (5 children)

In a 2007 pro-gun rights video, Navalny presents himself as a “certified nationalist” who wants to exterminate “flies and cockroaches” – while bearded Muslim men appear in cutaways. He whips out a gun and shoots an actor wearing a keffiyeh who tried to “attack” him.

Yeah maybe overt Russian white nationalists shouldn't be revered and their supporters shouldn't be given the right to freedom of expression.

[–] SkyezOpen 17 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Yeah, not like he changed his tune at all since fucking 07.

Hey tell me about how invading a soverign country is totally cool and OK to do.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 10 months ago

If Biden sent Seal Team 6 after Trump, that would be a serious problem, and not because I revere Trump.

[–] quantumfoam 9 points 10 months ago

Im not sure how i feel about that, and this might be an unpopular take, but does everyone need an absolutely untarnished past to be able to be recognized for something? Or can we just accept that while not a perfect person, he is a pretty decent figurehead for anti-putinism?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago (1 children)

He had recognized how wrong he was quite a while ago.

[–] UmeU 1 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

White nationalism shouldn’t be revered, but the right to freedom of expression should be.

The right for me to swing my fist ends where your chin begins.