Vladimir Putin is “crazy” and the war in Ukraine “stupid”. Appeared today in the courtroom at the appeal process that confirmed his nine-year sentence, dissident Alexei Navalny severely attacked the Kremlin leader. «It is a stupid war launched by Putin. Built on lies. A madman has sunk his claws of him in Ukraine and I don’t know what he wants to do with it, that mad thief, “Navalny said in the courtroom, quoted by Bbc.
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23 Maggio 2022
A major opponent of the Kremlin, Navalny is already serving a two-and-a-half-year sentence after being arrested at the Moscow airport in January 2021. He was then returning from Germany, where he had been treated following poisoning with the agent. nervino Novichok occurred in Siberia in August 2020. The new sentence, for fraud and contempt of the court, involves his transfer to another detention center, with a more severe regime. The Moscow court today reconfirmed, “without changes” the sentence handed down in March, reports the Russian news agency Interfax.
The allegations of fraud, in what is considered a political process, concern the management of the Anti-Corruption Fund, the organization founded by Navalny, now banned as “extremist”. The prison where Navalny will be transferred “is known because the detainees are tortured and murdered,” said Navalny’s spokeswoman, Kira Yarmish, adding that Putin wants to keep the dissident in prison as long as possible. “The goal of the whole world is to make sure Putin is overthrown as soon as possible,” she said on Twitter. “My new sentence has not yet come into effect, but I have heard rumors that I will be transferred to the high-security colony of Melekhovo, where they nail prisoners,” Navalny tweeted in early May. “Well, at least I’ll have an excuse to use this trendy emojy,” he added wryly, showing the icon for those who paint their nails.