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submitted 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) by nrzzrn@lemmy.world to c/worldnews@lemmy.ml

Police officers detain a woman who laid flowers for Alexei Navalny at the Memorial to Victims of Political Repression in St. Petersburg, Russia on Friday, Feb. 16, 2024.

Russian authorities say that Alexei Navalny, the fiercest foe of Russian President Vladimir Putin who crusaded against official corruption and staged massive anti-Kremlin protests, died in prison. He was 47. (AP Photo)

https://newsroom.ap.org/editorial-photos-videos/detail?itemid=4d98d9afaf84439aa6c35cc824bd6dfc&mediatype=photo

Via: https://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/1avnej3/police_officers_detain_a_woman_who_laid_flowers/

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[-] YurkshireLad@lemmy.ca 110 points 8 months ago

Wait but Tucker Carlson told us Russia was an amazing place, better than America!

[-] acockworkorange@mander.xyz 38 points 8 months ago

Let this fucker fade away into obscurity, please.

[-] daft61lunacy@lemmy.world 31 points 8 months ago

That guy can stay there if he likes it so much.

[-] Ghostalmedia@lemmy.world 26 points 8 months ago

Go to jail if you speak out against the president, BUT, there is a nice chandelier in a subway station.

[-] Lucidlethargy@sh.itjust.works 16 points 8 months ago

Lol, that bit where he praised their grocery store prices was insane. The average American makes over 300% what the average Russian makes in terms of salary.

That guy has dogshit for brains.

[-] PowerCrazy@lemmy.ml 6 points 8 months ago

And Rachel Maddow and Hillary Clinton told us America is the greatest country in the world....

[-] wesker@lemmy.sdf.org 73 points 8 months ago

Why even have a memorial if you can't visit it and pay respects?

[-] Ghostalmedia@lemmy.world 61 points 8 months ago

The Navalny memorial at the Wall of Grief is makeshift.

People are paying tribute to him there because the wall is a monument to Stalin era political persecution and Putin is basically doing the same shit.

[-] Neato@ttrpg.network 17 points 8 months ago

As a honeypot to arrest dissenters just like they're doing.

[-] iturnedintoanewt@lemm.ee 12 points 8 months ago

I'm not even sure how to define how self-satirical it is that they made a monument to the political victims of repression, which is now where they authorize any kind of demonstration if one is ever allowed, and it's also the spot where they arrest everyone. It's straight out of a joke.

[-] 3volver@lemmy.world 70 points 8 months ago

Russia is a fascist dictatorship.

[-] SoleInvictus@lemmy.world 35 points 8 months ago

And about half of American politicians are begging to suck Putin's dick.

[-] ladicius@lemmy.world 14 points 8 months ago

There's European "leaders" and politicians that are total clinging to his dick, too.

It's a psychological thing - they are so unsure about their validity and position in this world that they need an aggressive "father figure" to lead and to validate them. They are victims of their horrible childhoods, destined to repeat those traumatic experiences again and again. Includes trump, orban, even putin itself.

[-] ThatFembyWho 23 points 8 months ago

It's nice to see that despite our many differences, some thing unite all of us.

ACAB no matter where you live.

[-] nekandro@lemmy.ml 19 points 8 months ago

In a 2007 pro-gun rights video, Navalny presents himself as a “certified nationalist” who wants to exterminate “flies and cockroaches” – while bearded Muslim men appear in cutaways. He whips out a gun and shoots an actor wearing a keffiyeh who tried to “attack” him.

Yeah maybe overt Russian white nationalists shouldn't be revered and their supporters shouldn't be given the right to freedom of expression.

[-] SkyezOpen@lemmy.world 21 points 8 months ago

Yeah, not like he changed his tune at all since fucking 07.

Hey tell me about how invading a soverign country is totally cool and OK to do.

[-] nekandro@lemmy.ml 10 points 8 months ago

Oh great, so he's a covert Russian white nationalist who only wants to exterminate Muslims in secret.

Wait...

[-] SkyezOpen@lemmy.world 16 points 8 months ago

He disavowed nationalist shit 10 years ago. This has already been litigated. Now stop throating the cock of a dictator.

[-] P00P_L0LE@lemmy.ml 3 points 8 months ago
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[-] Tinidril@midwest.social 14 points 8 months ago

If Biden sent Seal Team 6 after Trump, that would be a serious problem, and not because I revere Trump.

[-] quantumfoam@lemmy.world 12 points 8 months ago

Im not sure how i feel about that, and this might be an unpopular take, but does everyone need an absolutely untarnished past to be able to be recognized for something? Or can we just accept that while not a perfect person, he is a pretty decent figurehead for anti-putinism?

[-] SeaJ@lemm.ee 7 points 8 months ago

He had recognized how wrong he was quite a while ago.

[-] UmeU@lemmy.world 2 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

White nationalism shouldn’t be revered, but the right to freedom of expression should be.

The right for me to swing my fist ends where your chin begins.

[-] lntl@lemmy.ml 7 points 8 months ago

i can't imagine she didn't think she wasn't going to jail for this

[-] ALERT@sh.itjust.works 20 points 8 months ago

Maybe she had her reasons. Maybe she have had enough of all this. Their government tries to cut out the courageous and leave only spineless brainless matter that doesn't resist.

[-] lntl@lemmy.ml 5 points 8 months ago

at least she got a great photo to share on the pipes

[-] Omega_Haxors@lemmy.ml 6 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Ya booiiiisss we reddit now!!!!! EDIT: nevermind it's just a repost of a reddit thread. Please don't pollute lemmy with reddit reposts. I quit that shithole site because of crappy posts like this. If it feels like it belongs on the front page of reddit, just post it on reddit instead. (or lemmy world)

[-] HootinNHollerin@lemmy.world 1 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

They’ve arrested like 400 ppl across 30 cities, so far

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