Originally Posted by
WE Branch Fanatic
Putin popular? Then who do you explain
things like this?
A Moscow court has sentenced Alexei Navalny to two years and eight months in a prison colony in a landmark decision for Vladimir Putin’s crackdown on the country’s leading opposition figure.
The move triggered marches in Moscow and the arrest of more than 1,000 protesters.
Navalny, who has accused the Russian president and his allies of stealing billions, was jailed for violating parole from a 2014 sentence for embezzlement in a case he has said was politically motivated.
This is up there with self appointed Jean Guaido as President of Venezuala, Navalny a open xenophobe is not a leading opposition figure, despite the western media claiming it, Vladamir Zhironosky is more popular.Mind you if being a leading opposition figure is 2% in an opinion poll then Screaming Lord Sutch was one.
Russians are well aware of Navalny's team seeking more funds from western intelligence agencies and his open disdain for Russian people.
He is a useful tool for the West, nothing more.
If blaming the courts system as being Kremlin controlled then they must have not got the message in 2013, because even though convicted of embezzlement they allowed him run.