They’ll keep pretending like new stuff came up to give him an effective life sentence so they don’t have to be seen giving him an actual life sentence
How is this justified to the Russian people?
Russian opposition politician Vladimir Kara-Murza, jailed for 25 years over criticism of the Ukraine offensive.
Russian opposition politician Boris Nemtsov had criticised Putin’s annexation of Crimea from Ukraine, was shot dead.
Politkovskaya, a reporter at Novaya Gazeta, Russia’s top independent newspaper, was a fierce critic of Kremlin’s tactics in Chechnya shot dead.
Opposition politician Ilya Yashin was jailed for eight and a half years for spreading “false” information about the Russian army
Opposition politician Yevgeny Roizman, detained for “discrediting” the Russian Armed Forces the charge carries a maximum prison sentence of five years.
He’s probably trying to pull a Mandela, but I wonder if he sometimes thinks returning to Russia was really worth it. It’s certainly brave and noble, but being imprisoned for the rest of your life just for the principle seems kinda foolish.
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Sometimes i wonder if he regrets his decision to return to Russia.
God bless him
At this point he’s like *f*ck it, I’ll stay in prison as long as phurtin is in power*
[The prosecution wants to send Alexey Navalny to a ‘special regime’ prison colony. How do they differ from other kinds of colonies?](https://meduza.io/en/cards/the-prosecution-wants-to-send-alexey-navalny-to-a-special-regime-prison-colony)
They’ll keep pretending like new stuff came up to give him an effective life sentence so they don’t have to be seen giving him an actual life sentence
How is this justified to the Russian people?
Russian opposition politician Vladimir Kara-Murza, jailed for 25 years over criticism of the Ukraine offensive.
Russian opposition politician Boris Nemtsov had criticised Putin’s annexation of Crimea from Ukraine, was shot dead.
Politkovskaya, a reporter at Novaya Gazeta, Russia’s top independent newspaper, was a fierce critic of Kremlin’s tactics in Chechnya shot dead.
Opposition politician Ilya Yashin was jailed for eight and a half years for spreading “false” information about the Russian army
Opposition politician Yevgeny Roizman, detained for “discrediting” the Russian Armed Forces the charge carries a maximum prison sentence of five years.
[Other suspicious deaths and poisonings](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suspicious_deaths_of_Russian_businesspeople_(2022%E2%80%932023))
In a gulag! WTF was he doing?
He’s probably trying to pull a Mandela, but I wonder if he sometimes thinks returning to Russia was really worth it. It’s certainly brave and noble, but being imprisoned for the rest of your life just for the principle seems kinda foolish.