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So, any bandit, wearing a state uniform or not, can open this lock by pushing your face into the camera as it happened in Russia during #Navalny protests in 2021?
Russian President Vladimir Putin probably did not directly order the killing of Alexei Navalny at a remote penal colony, U.S. intelligence agencies have concluded. But, sources say, by sending Navalny to the notorious high-security facility in the Arctic Circle, the Kremlin had effectively imposed a death sentence on the opposition leader. NBC News reports: https://flip.it/bm3ETn #WorldNews#News#Russia#Putin#Navalny
The head of the Russian #Orthodox Church, Patriarch #Kirill, has imposed a three-year suspension on the priest who held a memorial service at Alexey #Navalny’s grave in late March.
Priest Dmitry #Safronov, a cleric of the Church of the Intercession of the Holy Virgin on Lyschikova Hill in #Moscow, is now forbidden from giving blessings, wearing the frock, and bearing the church’s priestly cross until 2027.
„Alexei Nawalny gab alles für seine Überzeugung & seine Frau Julija #Nawalnaja teilt diese Stärke. Eine Stärke, die wir alle brauchen: im Kampf für #Demokratie & Freiheit“, so Landtagspräsidentin Ilse Aigner in ihrer Rede zur Verleihung des Freiheitspreises der Medien für das Ehepaar #Navalny beim Ludwig-Erhard-Gipfel.
During the years leading up to his death in a Russian prison, Aleksei A. #Navalny, the Russian opposition leader, was writing a #memoir about his life and work as a pro-democracy activist.
Titled “#Patriot,” the memoir will be published in the United States by Knopf on Oct. 22, with a first printing of half a million copies, and a simultaneous release in multiple countries.
With Putin's record alone, Republicans of all ilk should be moved toward the left to preserve their freedoms. Yet, they are willingly walking to the edge of the abyss.
Authoritarians across the globe are shutting down independent media and locking up reporters. More than 520 journalists are currently imprisoned worldwide, according to the advocacy group Reporters Without Borders. The Wall Street Journal has lifted its paywall to this article that reports on the surge in government crackdowns on the press. https://flip.it/UNAbgy #News#WorldNews#ReportersWithoutBorders#Navalny#EvanGershkovich
Journalist Antonina #Favorskaya, who covered events around #Navalny, was jailed for 10 days for laying flowers at his grave ('desobedience to the police'). After that, she was charged with participation in the 'extremist' @ACF_int. The 'court' ordered her detention for 2 months. https://t.co/h09q87tGAo