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Alexei Navalny was pronounced dead (lenta.ru)

submitted 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) by andrew_bidlaw@sh.itjust.works to c/worldnews@lemmy.ml

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As reported exclusively by russian sources at the moment, he lost consciousness after a walking hour and prison medics were unsuccessful in reanimating him, as per sources in УФСИН (government body regulating prisons and punishment). He was 47 years old at that time. The last time he was heard of he was moved from Moscow-based prison into the IK-3 named Polar Wolf, a penal colony located in a permafrost region near the town of Harp, where he found his end.

No other sources commented on that by now. At that time, there's no independent proof of that or other explanations but the one given by prison authorities.

A fitting reminder is that presidential elections are to be held in 15-17 of March, meaning it happened exactly one month prior to them.

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[-] wildcardology@lemmy.world 60 points 9 months ago

Russia desperately needs another revolution.

[-] andrew_bidlaw@sh.itjust.works 24 points 9 months ago

I don't know how you are proficient in russian history, but we have a thing called гонка на лафетах. At some point soviet administration grew that old they all died off in a decade, without coming up with a next gen of rulers. I feel like in a coming decade there would be a lot of funerals and the new chaotic 90s for Russia, Iran, that would be very painful for these nations, but it'd be another chance to start it right, at least as a lib democracy. People say I'm too dumb and optimistic, but there's still no successor to Putin and he's born in 1952, and the clocks are ticking. He and his friends are just to afraid to lose their place so they don't bother with that, meaning it would be a complete hell when they'd die one by one.

[-] davel@lemmy.ml 6 points 9 months ago

This framing sounds like great man theory, which is popular with liberals but not with historical materialists.

[-] andrew_bidlaw@sh.itjust.works 3 points 9 months ago

I call it institutionalized history, and yeah, history as a science was hurt by it up to the point we associate societal and economical changes with tzars, kings, presidents, ruling institutions who had no part in many oncoming natural changes. They didn't start things like industrial revolution, they just tried to acconodate to it. Still, the chronology of our school course of history is tied to them.

Yet, in that exact case, I think it's correct to tie the current regime to one personality or one group of people since they collected all power over the country in their hands. And them dying would definetely change the route of russian politics.

[-] davel@lemmy.ml 4 points 9 months ago

You’re better situated than me for understanding the current power dynamics in Russia. Here in Burgerland we’re always told Putler is all powerful and uniquely evil, like some cartoon villain.

[-] noobdoomguy8658@feddit.de 3 points 9 months ago

Like any good cartoon villain, Putin has enough in his biography to explain basically everything about his character, at whatever point of his life - it just doesn't make the villain less evil and deserving of being removed from any sort of power and, hopefully, put to justice, with the former being imperative.

[-] shea 6 points 9 months ago

that's interesting to hear from your perspective, thanks for the insight. When I read these headlines I always wonder what real Russians think

[-] wildcardology@lemmy.world 1 points 9 months ago

There are rumors that Putin is very sick. So it might be sooner than 10 years.

[-] andrew_bidlaw@sh.itjust.works 4 points 9 months ago

I think it's as copium though. He's very concerned about his own health, we have many proofs about that, and it's obvious he's a paranoic, but I don't think he's more ill than any gramps at 71, and he has the best medical support availiable in Russia. But yeah, I don't see him surviving another ten years. Not because of the said illness, would it be cancer or Parkinson's, but because his dick wiggling in Ukraine put many of his partners and their assets at risk, and his authority is wanishing with each new day this war lasts. I'd be very surprised if he'd die due to natural causes. Don't quote me on that, but if new reelection and a coming mobilization won't change anything, he'd have all chances for his bunker to be welded shut and flooded. Yet another sort of copium, if you think about it, but the one I personally can bet at, learning about a den of snakes he collected around him.

[-] davel@lemmy.ml 6 points 9 months ago

The media here have been saying he’s at death’s door on like on a weekly basis for the last two years. Pure propaganda.

[-] andrew_bidlaw@sh.itjust.works 2 points 9 months ago

Yeah. Our oppositional media bathed in that copium too. And the only thing that shit does is stopping EU\US politicians from proper counter-measures, thinking the problem would solve itself. No, Jack, it wouldn't.

[-] davel@lemmy.ml 20 points 9 months ago

Not another neoliberal shock therapy revolution, like Atlantic Council / New American Century stans want, it doesn’t.

[-] Omega_Haxors@lemmy.ml 9 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

I'm just now making the connection that the overtly fascist "shock doctrine" is directly tied to the neoliberal "shock therapy" (kind of like how "third way liberalism" and "third position fascism" have the same definition)

[-] davel@lemmy.ml 13 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

When you look at what happened to Chile, you come to realize that neoclassical / neoliberal / Chicago School economics and neocolonialism are very closely related.

IMO, neoclassical economics is a wildly successful psyop, such that it has become hegemonic in all capitalist countries. It’s an absolute garbage theory and yet is canon at every university, outside of perhaps China and the few other socialist states. Marxist economist Michael Hudson has helped me unlearn a lot of junk economics.