Alexei Navalny has died

That’s a lovely idea NanKate. We don’t have many passers by so I think I will light a candle in my main room.

I doubt there will be a funeral. His body won’t be released and I suspect he’s already been cremated.

I see they’re all virtual signalling in Munich. Well put your money where your mouth is: Ukraine!!!! 🇺🇦

'Yes' NanKate, and 'Yes' petra.

What’s happening in Munich Petra?

Maremia

'Yes' NanKate, and 'Yes' petra.

Security conference with all the other nodding heads.

Good plan NanKate.

Very sad indeed very brave man . Why are we surprised Putin is truly evil . I wish he had stayed abroad and campaigned from another country he must have known he would be killed. RIP

I agree with you, TwiceAsNice, but I also think if he had fled abroad he would have been pursued and poisoned. What a dreadful admission that Putin is able to do this with impunity.

The Russians haven’t got the common decency to give his family back his body. They (Putin) are beyond evil.

I was horrified to see a woman who was laying flowers for Navalny when some police officers came up behind her and forced her head face down into a snow drift and hold it there for a few seconds. Grrr.

They are unlikely to return his body because it would have evidence of poisoning.

Would probably have evidence …

That fat faced Putin ( if it is indeed him we see on tv and not a ring in) must have to have tasters for all his food because I am certain someone,somewhere will try to poison the beast. What a horrible,horrible man.

nanna8

That fat faced Putin ( if it is indeed him we see on tv and not a ring in) must have to have tasters for all his food because I am certain someone,somewhere will try to poison the beast. What a horrible,horrible man.

I think that is one of his doppelgangers. Perhaps he's the one who tastes all the food, hence his face becoming puffy.

Looks to me as if Putin is on steroids for some illness. He has a a classic steroid puffy face.

I understand that Novichok decays to nothing after a week or two. That is why the body is being withheld and, of course, if the body is stored in a mortuary whose cooling system has, unfortunately, broken down, the body will have decayed too much for signs of violence to be recogniseable.

Actually, if the Russians, or rather Putin had any sense, he would simply have had him cremated and returned the ashes to his wife, claiming that as she lives outside Russia, this was the easiest and kindness way to reunite her quickly with her deceased husband.

Navalny was not opposed to the Ukraine war. Just because he wanted to depose Putin doesn't mean he was any less a Russian patriot. I think posters are confusing certain issues here.

He was also a known white supremacist who famously described Chechnyans as "cockroaches".

flappergirl We do tend to deify our heroes and ignore the uncomfortable truths about them.

However, Navalny opposed Putin and most of what he has done, believed in democracy and when he returned to Russia after being treated for novichok poisoning in Germany, he knew he was walking into the lions den and what would inevitably follow - and it has.

It makes him a complex character, far deeper, and I think darker than popular reaction would have him.

I just watched this, such a moving tribute by the Marsh family, it brought tears to my eyes.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=yXl40qeC5M4

M0nica

Looks to me as if Putin is on steroids for some illness. He has a a classic steroid puffy face.

I understand that Novichok decays to nothing after a week or two. That is why the body is being withheld and, of course, if the body is stored in a mortuary whose cooling system has, unfortunately, broken down, the body will have decayed too much for signs of violence to be recogniseable.

Actually, if the Russians, or rather Putin had any sense, he would simply have had him cremated and returned the ashes to his wife, claiming that as she lives outside Russia, this was the easiest and kindness way to reunite her quickly with her deceased husband.

One of his former aides (now working in America) said some time ago that he was very ill.

I understand that Novichok disappears from the body after about 2 weeks. Can if be a coincidence that that is how long it has taken the Russian authorities to release the body?

Casdon

I just watched this, such a moving tribute by the Marsh family, it brought tears to my eyes.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=yXl40qeC5M4

Thank you for adding this, very moving.

Apparently negotiations were underway to swap Navalny for a Russian prisoner in a German gaol but Putin was opposed to it. You can bet that the Russian in aa German gaol is being treated very differently to the political prisoners in Russia.

www.theguardian.com/world/2024/feb/26/vladimir-putin-had-alexei-navalny-killed-to-thwart-prisoner-swap-allies-claim

I’ve just read that AN’ s mother’s lawyer has just been arrested. Is no one safe from Putin and his evil government?

They must have enormous prisons to house everyone they have arrested who don’t follow Putin’s rigid rules.

NanKate

I’ve just read that AN’ s mother’s lawyer has just been arrested. Is no one safe from Putin and his evil government?

They must have enormous prisons to house everyone they have arrested who don’t follow Putin’s rigid rules.

Whaaaat?!

The bloke is seriously unhinged.

(And maybe trying to make up for having a small w1lly)