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Cites lambdadmitry · 2017-03 · on “We’re losing the information war”

Hi there! Actual Russian here. Aleksei Navalny is indeed a de-facto leader of Russian opposition. >- He isn't coming second in any polls Not true. [1] is the only major election in which Aleksei personally participated. He came second with huge gap between him and the third one (despite state-organized media campaign against him). Moreover, it seems you misunderstand Russian political climate. There are no real political parties here except those loyal to Putin. Most "candidates" in that wiki list are sock puppets with the exceptions of Navalny and Khodorkovsky. Khodorkovsky is not really a politician at this point, so your ironic assessment of > journalists act as if there are only two poli

Cites e40 · 2017-07 · on “Jeff Bezos Surpasses Bill Gates as World's Richest Person”

What is known publicly is certainly an indication that he is criminally wealthy. I can't find the reference right now, but there's a Russian bureaucrat close to Putin that makes a small salary, yet he has a large villa in Italy and many other properties, totally many millions of <insert currency> of net worth. There was even a Russian citizen that was documenting and publishing the info and using drones to video him at his Italian villa. I wish I could find that link, it was fascinating. Ah, found it: [LINK] The video, with English subtitles, as almost 24M views: [this video]

Cites keymone · 2019-11 · on “Russian whistleblower was assassinated after uncovering $200B scandal (2018)”

[LINK] [LINK] [LINK] [this video] there's plenty more if you want to know how these crooks use shady schemes to steal from russian citizens and move it semi-legally out of russia to have nice places to retire to of course if the only evidence you will accept is putin himself bringing you incriminating documents with his signatures - i got nothing to offer.

Cites credit_guy · 2020-12 · on “Russia gives Kremlin critic Navalny an ultimatum: Return immediately or jail”

> This would not have been a subplot in a Le Carre novel. Not sure I understand what you're trying to say. Are you claiming your (b) is more likely than your (a)? And it is so because of something to do with the Nord Stream pipeline? That's quite some conspiracy theory. I don't find this likely. Why? I watched the youtube clip where Navalny dupes one of the members of the team assigned to assassinate him. And what struck me is how charismatic Navalny is. He is a formidable political opponent to Putin. I can certainly see Putin preferring to live in a Navalny-less world. Aside from his charisma, is it possible that everything Navalny puts on Youtube is fabrication? How difficult can it be to