Alexei Navalny: Russian opposition leader found guilty
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[QUOTE]Russia's main opposition leader, Alexei Navalny, has been found guilty of embezzlement and handed a five-year suspended sentence. It bars him from running for president next year against Vladimir Putin.
But Mr Navalny, who denies the charges, has vowed to take part in the race regardless. It was not immediately clear if this was legally possible. His conviction came in a retrial after the European Court of Human Rights ruled the first trial to be unfair.
The court in the provincial city of Kirov found Mr Navalny guilty of embezzlement in relation to a timber company called Kirovles, for which he was also handed a 500,000-rouble ($8,500; £6,700) fine.
Mr Navalny, 40, is known for his anti-corruption campaign, which targeted senior officials close to the Kremlin. He says the case against him is an effort to keep him out of politics.
He had recently stepped up his political activity after announcing plans last year to run for the presidency in 2018. Mr Putin is allowed by the constitution to run for a second consecutive six-year term, but he has not said yet if he plans to do so.[/QUOTE]
Bloody suspicious if you ask me, who else remains as a viable candidate against Putin?
The process itself is hilarious. There is no crime, so the people in power had to make up one.
Navalny was an advisor to his friend and governor of Kirovskaya oblast, Belyh. Then another friend of Navalny, Oficerov, started a business in Kirovskaya oblast and purchased a volume of wood from a state company, Kirovles, for 15,5 million of rubles to resell it later for 19 million.
This is the basic concept of entrepreneurship. You buy things at a low price and resell at a higher one. Some time later, the guy in charge of Kirovles "confessed" that Navalny conspired with him and Belyh to sell the wood at a lower price so that Oficerov could make a profit.
It all comes down to this one confession, and the court doesn't bother or want to take it into account that wood has been sold for even lower prices previously.
It's hardly [i]suspicious[/i], it's straight up political case from letter A to letter z. There's very little pretence at this point.
The case itself boils down to what Demeschik has written above, yes.
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Bloody suspicious if you ask me, who else remains as a viable candidate against Putin?[/QUOTE]
Even before this, Navalny was not really a viable opponent to Putin. The whole media was behind Putin in working to reduce Navalny to a laughing stock, and he had a closet full of skeletons, which, even though they were most likely invented by the government, were enough to give most people too much doubt.
[QUOTE=Amfleet;51794747]Even before this, Navalny was not really a viable opponent to Putin. The whole media was behind Putin in working to reduce Navalny to a laughing stock, and he had a closet full of skeletons, which, even though they were most likely invented by the government, were enough to give most people too much doubt.[/QUOTE]
True. It also doesn't help that there's no elections in Russia.
I agree that it's a political case and another in line of our long history of corruption and influence.
but Navalny as [I]viable candidate[/I] against Putin?
I laugh at thy statement and soo does anyone who kept an eye on downfall of Navalny's political career.
No matter how much you try to contribute Kremlin his undoing he did tremendously good job underming his reputation himself.
[QUOTE=karimatrix;51794844]I agree that it's a political case and another in line of our long history of corruption and influence.
but Navalny as [I]viable candidate[/I] against Putin?
I laugh at thy statement and soo does anyone who kept an eye on downfall of Navalny's political career.
No matter how much you try to contribute Kremlin his undoing he did tremendously good job underming his reputation himself.[/QUOTE]
You willing to elaborate? Because I don't remember Navalny fucking his political career over in any spectacular way. He screwed up a lot, but none of his mistakes were as big as you seem to imply.
can we call russia a dictatorship already
[QUOTE=Saturn V;51795278]can we call russia a dictatorship already[/QUOTE]
You are late by about 13 years.
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