Enjoying the view from Limbo
As we are now on the eve of Russia’s latest fake election — which will, amusingly enough, be held on the Ides of March — I would like to recommend a short opinion piece written by journalist Vladimir Kara-Murza, whose mentor Boris Nemtsov was murdered by Vladimir Putin in 2015, and who is himself currently in prison on a charge of treason, which...
Ideas and Reflections / World Politics
by Daren Jonescu · Published April 18, 2021 · Last modified April 19, 2021
If you want freedom, you must fight for it. Let us examine the meaning of “fighting.” Vladimir Putin ordered his most prominent and popular Russian critic, Alexei Navalny, murdered by poison, as has been his standard operating procedure in dealing with all political opponents throughout his thinly-veiled dictatorship. The dying Navalny was transported to Germany so that doctors there could save his life....
It appears that Vladimir Putin, whose best interests and long-term designs were key priorities of Donald Trump’s foreign policy throughout his one-term presidency, has once again tried to assassinate his influential public critic, Alexei Navalny. This time, Navalny was poisoned with a Soviet-era nerve agent associated with many previous deaths of Putin critics, while he was being transferred from Siberia to Germany for...
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