A few excerpts from the farce going on in the Kremlin run court.
8:22 p.m. Navalny Sentenced to 3.5 Years in Penal Colony. The 10 months Navalny already served under house arrest as part of the first trial will count against that time, meaning he will be imprisoned for a further two years and eight months.
The judge ruled that Navalny was in violation of the terms of his parole — which required him to appear in person with a probationary officer twice a month — after he was discharged from Berlin’s Charite hospital September, where he was being treated for Novichok poisoning.
2:00 p.m.: After reading out documents for about a half hour, the judge announces a two-hour break for lunch. “Can you send someone to McDonald’s?” Navalny asks.
1:57 p.m.: The court confirms to Interfax that diplomats from the Czech Republic, Austria, Lithuania, Norway, Sweden, the Netherlands, the United States, Canada, Germany, Switzerland, Britain, Latvia and Poland are present at the hearing as well as EU representatives.
1:27 p.m.: At least 237 people have been detained outside the Moscow City Court so far, the OVD-Info police monitor reports.
1:00 p.m.: Navalny questions the FSIN official: “Comrade captain, do you respect the Russian President Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin?” … “You said you don’t know where I’ve been since August. Putin said on television that thanks to him I’d been sent to Germany for treatment.”
“I was in a coma, then I was in the ICU,” he continues. “I sent you medical documents; you had my address and contacts. What else could I have done to tell you where I am? I have a lawyer and my lawyer has a telephone… how could I have informed you better?”
The FSIN representative responds that Navalny “needed to provide documents and explain the serious reasons for not showing up to inspections.”
“I was in a coma!” Navalny says.
12:49 p.m.: Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova writes that the presence of foreign diplomats at Navalny’s hearing “isn’t just meddling in the internal affairs of a sovereign state, but the self-incrimination of the west’s unsightly and illegal attempts to contain Russia.” She accuses the diplomats of being “an attempt at psychological pressure on the judge.”
12:45 p.m.: The Kremlin says Putin is not following today’s hearing, adding that it hopes Navalny’s fate would not affect Russia’s ties with Europe.
“We hope that such nonsense as linking the prospects of Russia-EU relations with the resident of a detention center will not happen,” Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told journalists, days ahead of a visit to Moscow by the European Union’s foreign affairs chief Josep Borrell.
(c) The Moscow Times
“We hope that such nonsense as linking the prospects of Russia-EU relations with the resident of a detention center will not happen,” Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told journalists, days ahead of a visit to Moscow by the European Union’s foreign affairs chief Josep Borrell.
Don’t worry, this appeaser will accept his bag of rubles, then it will be business as usual.
Good to see that Norway soon will receive 4 B1 Lancer from the US together with 200 US soldiers to strengthen our defense 😉
Jailed for being treated after being poisoned by Putin. Sadism has its home in Putin’s Russia! Bah!
“If we wanted to poison him he would have been dead” Thanks to the reaction of the pilot on the plane his life was saved, if he had continued the flight to Moscow Putin would have succeeded with their plan
Being in a coma is no reason for not showing up…..Russian fake court.
Being dead is also no excuses for not showing up at a court hearing. Welcom to Mordor.
“He’ll go down in history as nothing but a poisoner. We all remember Alexander the Liberator [Alexander II] and Yaroslav the Wise [Yaroslav I]. Well, now we’ll have Vladimir the Underpants Poisoner.” – Navalny
https://meduza.io/en/feature/2021/02/02/vladimir-the-poisoner
Now let’s wait for PACE to launch a scathing attack on Russia, and remove them from the organisation.
You drunk? 😀
A bit of sarcasm. 😁
How do the dutch call sightseeing in RuSSia? Schijt-seeing! 😂
I’m afraid I am dead long before 😉
The Council of Europe has said the ruling “defies all credibility and contravenes Russia’s international human rights obligations.”
What a bunch of hypocrites.
Sad you won’t be out there when i’ll take power in 10-15 years from now. But i pray every day you will live long enough to see it. You are a great guy. 😉
We use to be 90+ in my family, my mom was 96, so it’s still a hope 😂
Great! 😀
Being innocent is 3.5 years gulag with free torture!Down with Putin!!
So, killing the rug rat’s most prominent opponent failed and thus he must be thrown into a prison – in a penal colony, no less!
I can’t wait to see the reaction from PACE and the fat muslim Merkel.
“The United States is deeply concerned by a prison term meted out to Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny on Tuesday, and repeated its call for his immediate release, saying it would coordinate closely with allies about how to hold Russia accountable.”
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-russia-politics-navalny-usa/u-s-deeply-concerned-by-navalny-sentence-blinken-idUSKBN2A22HU?il=0
I wonder which allies will show real determination to sock it to the mafiosi.
Expect the temperature to rise in the EU by several degrees, but nothing positive will come from it.
No, of course not. A jellyfish simply can’t grow a backbone.