Tag: Alexei Navalny
On April 27, the Wall Street Journal published an investigation based on as yet unpublished U.S. intelligence community assessments and anonymous briefings courtesy of “security officials from several European capitals,” which concluded that Vladimir Putin neither orchestrated Russian opposition activist Alexei Navalny’s death in prison two months earlier nor desired it to happen.
Anew MintPress News study of media coverage of the deaths of American journalist and commentator Gonzalo Lira and Russian political leader Alexey Navalny has found that the establishment U.S. press overwhelmingly ignored the former and focussed on the latter.
A new round of economic punishments, this time for the death of Alexei Navalny, is unlikely to be more successful than previous efforts.
Following the death of Russian oppositionist Alexei Navalny last Friday, the US and its allies, with the aid of the Western media, have launched a campaign promoting his wife, Yulya, as the next leader of Russia’s “democratic” opposition to the Putin government. In a manner befitting of an aristocrat, the “first lady of the Russian opposition” has been anointed her husband’s natural “heir” and is being welcomed at the highest levels of the state.
