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Obviously the "embezzlement" was a sham charge by the Kremlin:

> The court did not explain why the trial would be held in prison and failed to explain how witnesses, journalists or Navalny’s defence team could attend the heavily restricted facility.

> Navalny is currently serving a two-and-a-half-year sentence on trumped-up, politically-motivated charges, which the European Court of Human Rights has described as “arbitrary and manifestly unreasonable”

https://www.amnesty.org.uk/press-releases/russia-navalny-fac...

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-60832310

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Wether that's true or not (given his ideological leanings there would be nothing surprising if he was corrupted), he still was a fascist and a racist.

Hardly the symbol of democracy that western liberals are struggling to make him to be.

BTW don't you find it curious how his "wife" was already at the munich security conference, ready to give a speech to the world just few hours after his death?

Don't you find curious that the kremlin sent out an announcement about Navalnys death 2 minutes after he was pronounced dead?

Kinda, yes. Curious timing as well. But why would Putin kill Navalny now, while he's in jail and inoffensive? Cui prodest?

Why is irrelevant when he was in russian prison in a faraway region and only the official apparatus with putin at the top had the means to kill him.

Why would they kill him? Who knows, there's spite, posturing, all the other mafia shit.

Also why did you put Navalnys wife in quotations?

Note: I'm not giving any judgement on whether Navalny was a good or bad person, liberal or nationalist. Just that he was a political prisoner killed by a brutal autocrat.

> Why is irrelevant when he was in russian prison in a faraway region and only the official apparatus with putin at the top had the means to kill him.

It is never irrelevant. I feel it's actually damaging for putin to have killed him now, so I still wonder why would have he done it?

Mafia shit is a naive answer and only shows your bias, Putin is not a mafia boss but the leader of a great power.

> Also why did you put Navalnys wife in quotations?

Shes known to have had other companions while he was in jail. All pretty rich. I strongly believe her appearance at the Munich security conference was just a carefully planned show.

So your morals worry about whether there is infidelity in marriage but your morals have no issue about murder. The murderer is still a respected leader of a great power in your eyes?

Using your own favorite trope, a bit hypocritical, ain't it?

Each year, like clockwork, Putin's top critic residing in Russia is killed "mysteriously." If you can't figure out "cui prodest" by now, you're in a small (but quite vocal!) minority.

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