Navalny, one of the leading Russian voices against Vladimir Putin before he was locked up, has now been convicted of promoting "extremism."

A Russian " " court " " on Friday issued its verdict in a new case against jailed opposition leader Alexey Navalny, convicting the politician of promoting “extremism” and extending his time in prison by 19 years, according to Russian state media and his own team.

    • iAmTheTot@kbin.social
      627·
      1 year ago

      Uh that seems like a pretty absolutist world view. You can simultaneously think that the invasion of Ukraine is terrible, and care that a Russian man is being jailed for nearly twenty years by a kangaroo court.

    • 1chemistdown@kbin.social
      454·
      1 year ago

      I’m not calling you a liar, but maybe misinformed.

      Russia’s prominent jailed opposition figure Alexei Navalny has lost an appeal against a nine-year prison term, but not before launching a scathing attack on the war in Ukraine.
      Condemning Vladimir Putin’s war as stupid, he said it was “like your courts, built entirely on lies”.

      “You will suffer a historic defeat in this stupid war that you started. It has no purpose or meaning. Why are we fighting a war?” he said.

    • carbonprop@lemmy.caEnglish
      141·
      1 year ago

      I think him being concerned with the economics of a war rather than the ethics of it are telling. However here is a quote from Navalny in March. Seems like he is somewhat on a middle ground. Not sure what to think of him.

      Navalny wrote that Ukraine’s borders are “similar to Russia’s—[they were] internationally recognized and defined in 1991.” All of the areas of Ukraine that the Kremlin has supposedly “annexed” are, by right and by law, still Ukrainian, including Crimea.Mar 2, 2023

        • carbonprop@lemmy.caEnglish
          5·
          1 year ago

          Difficult to feel sympathetic towards someone who suggests annexed land land can be taken at will. But also hard to deny the punishments he faces from Putin are extremely heavy handed. Russia really needs a revolution that puts in place people who actually want to serve the people and become a productive democracy.

          • anlumo@feddit.deEnglish
            5·
            1 year ago

            Revolutions never do that, because they’re started by wannabe-dictators or the military.

    • JohnDClay@sh.itjust.works
      8·
      1 year ago

      He can still be much better than Putin and support Crimea 2014. Not a good option, but a less bad one, and one that is dangerous to Putin.

    • Cleverdawny@lemm.eeEnglish
      92·
      1 year ago

      I think Navalny shouldn’t be in jail and is better than Putin. But he’s still a piece of Russian garbage.

    • NavalExplorer@sh.itjust.works
      4·
      1 year ago

      While the second quote is more telling, the first one is misleading. The only reason Ukraine has a shot at taking Crimea back is because Russia invaded.

      There was just no hope for Ukraine to retake it by force, and Russia under putin would never give it back voluntarily. Even not under Putin, the opinion would be such that this would be a difficult politically speaking. That’s what Navalny was commenting on with this quote.

    • elevenant@kbin.social
      3·
      1 year ago

      Do you have a source?
      At least a quick search on my side does not bring up anything in support of your statement.

      • Cleverdawny@lemm.eeEnglish
        9·
        1 year ago

        Yeah

        He’s better than Putin in that a turd sandwich is better than a firehose full of raw sewage to the face

        But honestly, if someone put him in power, I’m 50/50 over whether he would just become the next Russian dictator

        • ikiru@lemmy.mlEnglish
          41·
          1 year ago

          50/50? I feel like there’s a 90% chance they will be and I think that’s a conservative estimate.