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Navalny: how Putin's opponent became "the man too many"

2020-09-03T18:03:17.969Z


STORY - Physically attacked several times, sometimes imprisoned, the indefatigable Navalny has not ceased over the years to challenge the Russian leaders whom he describes as "crooks and thieves".


In Moscow

"

Wherever this gentleman appears, he always leaves traces as they say, there is always a problem with him ..."

: Vladimir Poutine never quotes his name.

This

"gentleman" of

whom the head of the Kremlin spoke, here in September 2013 during a press conference, is none other than Alexeï Navalny, the lawyer, the blogger and the anti-corruption activist who, at the time already, asserts itself as one of its main opponents.

This instruction of silence has since been passed and respected by the entourage of the Russian Head of State: while Alexeï Navalny had just been the victim of a serious malaise, on August 20, in a plane between Siberia and Moscow , and was hospitalized urgently in Omsk, the presidential spokesman, Dmitry Peskov, refused to name him, designating him only as

“the patient”

… A few days later, in his interview of re-entry on television, the chief of the Kremlin has not a single word for the Navalny affair.

Who, still in a coma, was transferred to Berlin where his doctors

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Source: lefigaro

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