STORY OF ALEXEI NAVALNY:
How strong can a person be- you will be shocked to know! come, let us delve deeper into it. the protests began after an individual by the name of Alexei Navalny was arrested in Moscow. when he was returning from Berlin back to Moscow on 17 january.
On arriving at Moscow's airport, he was arrested by the police shortly before he was placed in prison, Navalny filmed a message and posted it in social media in which he called for nationwide protests and urged his supporters to take part in the protests. But you might wonder who is Navalny and why have the Russians come out in support for him. Alexei Navalny was born june 4, 1976. HIs father was born in Ukraine, he spent a lot of childhood in Chernobyl before the nuclear accident in 1986. after earning degrees in law and finance from russian universities, Navalny entered politics in 1999. This was the same year when Putin became Russian president for the first time. Navalny started his political career by joining the liberal opposition party Yabloko but disagreements with the party caused him to be expelled form the party in 2007. Gradually, he developed his Anti-Corruption Foundation and become popular in Russia upon exposing corruption scandals in the late 2000s. Meanwhile, he also started his own party and try to contest the elections- the idea was a flop one. In 2012, allegations were cast that Putin won the elections through fraud so, he conducted rallies against Putin in Moscow for which he was put in jail for 15 days. In 2017, he got arrested for 25 days, In 2019, he got arrested for 30 days throughout the decade (Between 2010-2020), he conducted Anti-Putin, pro-democratic rallies and protested that the elections conducted in Russia are fraudulent and consistently tried to beat Putin in elections. Today, he is seen as the face of the opposition in Russia-standing against Putin. Along with that, he is an Anti-Corruption activist and you could even call him a Youtuber because the video with 90 millions views that i had showed you was actually made by him. He is single handedly serving as the opposition as well as the independent media.
RUSSIAN DICTATORSHIP:
The problem, as you might already be aware of- is that Russia is a democracy only for name sake. It is a democratic country only on paper when in reality it is a dictatorship under Putin. You will get to know the reality when you check Russia's democratic index or Press Freedom index. Each time elections are conducted, allegations are cast on Putin and how he won the election through fraud. All the television channels and newspapers have genuflected before the government or sold themselves ( to the government). The condition of the media there is even worse then the condition of the media in India. In such a dictatorship, for an opposition politician to win the elections is too far fetched. It is a challenge to merely stay alive literally because Navalny has been attacked fatally many times But despite that, Navalny has remain committed to exposing Putin in one case after the other. In the video with 92 million views, Navalny exposing (allegedly) Putin's 1 billion dollar worth secret palace, This is a palace that is secret and people do not know about and it was allegedly paid for "with the largest bribe in the world". He has bought a huge area the video is 2 hour long. Do watch it, if you do not understand russian, then english subtitles are also available on the video.
PUTIN'S ATTEMPTS TO SILENCE OPPOSITION:
Coming back to Navalny, I would like to tell you about the different ways Putin has tried to suppress him.In 2011 Navalny was arrested for the first time for his role in a protest. In 2012, Putin ordered Russia's Investigative Committee to launch a criminal inquiry into Navalny's past. The following year, in 2013, Mr Navalny was accused and sentenced for embezzling timber worth $500,000 from the state timber company, This was in regard to the timber wood.
In Russia, the dictatorship is so entrenched in the country that even the court judges are pawns of the government and judgements are always delivered in favour of Putin. This is the case of 2013 that was used to bar him from standing against Putin in the presidential elections because there is a rule in place that states that a person with a pending criminal case against him cannot contest the presidential elections and even his family members have not been spared. In 2014, his brother was jailed in a fabricated case and his brother spent three and a half years in prison before being released in 2018. In 2020, Russian authorities seized Navalny's bank accounts and those of his wife,son and daughter.Navalny was forced his Anti-Corruption foundation in july 2020,under the pretext of some allegations and if this make you wonder how much torture can a person undergo...then this is just the start. as previously mentioned, he has also been fatally attacked. He was even allegedly poisoned.not once, but on three occasions.
The first attempt was in 2018, Navalny was attacked with a bright green liquid by an assailant who pretended to shake his hand- but he was saved and the second time, was in 2019 when he suffered an allergic reaction in jail,allegedly from an "unknown chemical substance".he was saved even then and the third time was on 20 August,2020 after drinking tea while in an airport, he became violently ill during a flight, the plane made an emergency landing and he was rushed to a hospital in germany. The german government and labs in france and sweden conducted an independent investigation on his body. It was discovered that Navalny had been poisoned with a substance named Novichok. It was first suspected that his tea was poisoned but it was later found out that the assassin put the poison in his underwear and after this incident, he slipped into coma and stayed in that state for two weeks. he was on ventilator and you could say that he got saved with great difficulty despite that this was the incident of september 2020. and Thankfully, he was in a hospital in germany.
Had he been in some hospital in Russia, attempts would have been made to finish him off again but what he did after this shocked the entire world.He conducted an investigation undercover and posted a video of that on youtube and the video was titled " I called my killer.He confessed." this is the english translate
He actually conducted an investigation to try and find out the person who tried to kill him/assassinate him. He called him up and pretended to be an intelligence officer and got him to confess how he attempted to assassinate him, the entire phone call is available on youtube-what was the plan and why did it fail.if you are interested watch this video....Not only was a russian opposition politician attacked fatally. The very person who was attacked conducted an investigation himself and called up the attacker an got him to confess. After all this , Mr.Navalny could have easily stayed safely in germany and his life was less threatened there as compared to russia.
CONCLUSION:
He could have easily kept exposing Putin from there.His killer call video has already gone viral and everyone knew that if he returned to russia now, Putin would finish him off definitely but despite that, Navalny decide to go back to Russia.
In january 2021, he boarded the flight from berlin to Moscow and police arrested him as soon as he landed, in the presence of the media, So did you understand the context of why so many people are out on the street in Russia to protest in Navalny?
just after a day he was arrested, he released his biggest expose on youtube and the video with 90 million views that exposes the corruption of Putin worth billions.......
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