{"id":110118,"date":"2021-02-01T12:30:51","date_gmt":"2021-02-01T17:30:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=110118"},"modified":"2021-02-01T11:14:31","modified_gmt":"2021-02-01T16:14:31","slug":"the-continuing-story-of-whats-on-in-russia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=110118","title":{"rendered":"The Continuing Story of What’s On In Russia"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Pro-Navalny protests are underway in Russia in many places. The Russians want Navalny out of jail, and are protesting the Putin regime\u2019s response to their entreaties.<\/p>\n

This article from January 23 tells us that more than 3,000 people were arrested during a demonstration in support of Navalny.\u00a0 https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2021\/01\/23\/959923454\/protests-swell-across-russia-calling-for-the-release-of-kremlin-critic-alexei-na<\/a><\/p>\n

Navalny\u2019s wife has publicly called on Russians to support Navalny in protest.<\/p>\n

From the article:\u00a0 Among those detained was Navalny’s wife, Yulia Navalnaya, who shared\u00a0a photo<\/a>\u00a0of herself from inside what she said was a paddy wagon. She was later released.<\/p>\n

“They can’t put everybody in jail. There are many people and I don’t think that we have enough jails to put everyone in there,” said Maria Nechayeva, 27, an attorney at an information technology company who was attending the protest in Moscow. \u2013 article<\/p>\n

Meantime, the protests continue unabated and by January month end, had grown substantially.<\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2021\/01\/31\/962439823\/defying-putin-russians-return-to-the-streets-to-demand-alexei-navalnys-release<\/a><\/p>\n

There are clashes with police, but most of these seem to be relatively peaceful events.<\/p>\n

From the article:\u00a0 In anticipation of Sunday’s protests, Russian authorities moved this past week to clamp down on leading opposition figures and several key aides to Navalny. Authorities arrested Navalny’s brother Oleg, as well as Lyubov Sobol, an attorney for Navalny’s Anti-Corruption Foundation, Maria Alyokhina from the Pussy Riot punk group and Anastasia Vasilyeva, head of the Alliance of Doctors, who was filmed stoically reciting Beethoven as police searched her Moscow flat. Authorities said they were arrested on suspicion of violating coronavirus restrictions. \u2013 article<\/p>\n

There are two Twitter posts embedded in that article, worth a look. Navalny has a lot of support, and Vlad\u2019s attempt to poison him is a weak sister cheap shot.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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