navalny was killed by putin. shut the fuck up about his politics or character for now, shut the fuck up even more if you're not living in Russia or don't know anything about the repressions that putin's government brings onto innocent people fucking CONSTANTLY, not to mention trying to kill them. navalny was a political prisoner and was killed while being imprisoned for NOT breaking any law
navalny has politics i don't endorse (right-liberal / libertarianism) and made bedfellows with groups i would never march with (from quasi-fascists to communist party splinters), with a personality that has long been brusque, crude, boorish, and standoffish. his vision of reform is stale, outdated, and at the moment, quixotic. the work he has done in exposing corruption, however myopic it may be to the scale of problems in russia, was important, and, counter to what some say, he has marched in anti-war, anti-imperialist demonstrations since 2014. he's chosen to become a political martyr in a useless strategy that will never work. quite frankly i believe he may well die in prison, and i suppose that absolves him of much current criticism: he's both admirable and foolish. neither he nor his staff are at all popular in russia. in fact, i find his staff grating, dull, and completely incompetent at reading the room. every time they post it piles on evidence pointing to them as narcissists, especially volkov and pevchikh, who are tremendous idiots
I don't usually like to post about current events/news still in the making, and Navalny's team says they are not yet convinced he really is dead, but I am not one to truly believe in miracles and I worry these news will end up not getting seen by as many people as they should be.
So.
Navalny is apparently dead, and with him one of the last big opposition politicians is gone. This is one of the biggest blows to the Russian opposition in years. Please keep an eye on the news. Don't let Navalny's work be in vain.
Andrey Sakharov’s funeral in 1989 is what Putin sure as hell remembers. That’s why he is afraid of Navalny’s funeral and why Navalny’s mother has to undergo sadistic psychological torture as we speak.
Sakharov was a Russian nuclear physicist, and later became an advocate of civil liberties and civil reforms in the Soviet Union, for which he faced state persecution; these efforts earned him the Nobel Peace Prize in 1975
it says here what he often repeated: "I am not afraid, and you should not be afraid either" - я не боюсь и вы не бойтесь
a week ago, I attended his funeral and it's still difficult to comprehend all this, and probably for me he will remain alive forever (at least in my heart)
my favorite tattoo artist decided to hand over such amazing tattoos almost for free in memory of him, and I didn't even hesitate and booked a session straight away and now this beauty is with me forever
amazing flowers, amazing colors and an amazing phrase and I'll definitely try not to be afraid 💔
Alexei Navalny’s closing words after his 2021 trial got me today:
If you want I’ll talk to you about God and salvation. I’ll turn up the volume of heartbreak to the maximum, so to speak. The fact is that I am a Christian, which usually rather sets me up as an example for constant ridicule in the Anti-Corruption Foundation, because mostly our people are atheists and I was once quite a militant atheist myself. But now I am a believer, and that helps me a lot in my activities, because everything becomes much, much easier. I think about things less. There are fewer dilemmas in my life, because there is a book in which, in general, it is more or less clearly written what action to take in every situation. It’s not always easy to follow this book, of course, but I am actually trying. And so, as I said, it’s easier for me, probably, than for many others, to engage in politics….‘Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they will be satisfied.’ I’ve always thought that this particular commandment is more or less an instruction to activity. And so, while certainly not really enjoying the place where I am, I have no regrets about coming back, or about what I’m doing. It’s fine, because I did the right thing. On the contrary, I feel a real kind of satisfaction. Because at some difficult moment I did as required by the instructions, and did not betray the commandment.
The Oscars: We are apolitical! We can't allow any reminder that Ukraine exists!
Also the Oscars: (give award to a documentary glorifying a russian white supremacist)
A true achievement for the russian "opposition", they can proudly go back to doing ABSOLUTELY NOTHING to actually fight their fascist regime, but now they're going to be even more obnoxious about it.