WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Donald Trump, who drew criticism as U.S. president for his praise of Russian leader Vladimir Putin, made his first public comment on the death of Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny on Monday in a social media post that cast no blame. "The sudden death of Alexei Navalny has made me more and more aware of what is happening in our Country," Trump wrote, appearing to link the death to his own political troubles. It was not clear what similarities Trump was trying to draw with Russia's most prominent opposition leader.
  • @kava
    -7•9 months ago

    ok. for one, read the wikipedia page but i suggest reading one that was edited before he died just because after he died there’s been a lot of changes

    https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Alexei_Navalny&oldid=1189517416#2011_parliamentary_election_and_protests

    some bits to back up what i said

    He was behind the 2006 Russian Nationalist march

    In late 2006, Navalny appealed to the Moscow City Hall, asking it to grant permission to conduct the nationalist 2006 Russian march.

    This was essentially a giant protest against immigrants. There were many neo-nazis including people holding swastikas. if you look around long enough, you’ll find a find of navalny there with some swastikas behind him. i can’t find the video right now but i found some images of the russian march which should be enough to show there were neo-nazis there

    please see following images i’ve placed into an imgur album: https://imgur.com/a/m5JQxIH

    he founded this organization: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Russian_Liberation_Movement

    National Russian Liberation Movement, which made anti-immigrant its main policy. During this period of time he would make certain statements like

    “muslims are cockroaches that need to be exterminated” “immigrants are like cavities, you need to pull them out” etc

    “Everything in our way should be carefully but decisively removed through deportation,” Navalny said in a video dressed as a dentist, comparing immigrants to dental cavities.

    here’s an article that goes more in depth: https://jacobin.com/2021/01/alexei-navalny-russia-protests-putin

    while it’s true that the Russian regime has illegally restrained him - they arrested him, tried to poison him, and ultimately killed him - but he was still a neonazi