Navalny uses court appearance to rip Putin

[Cypress]

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Navalny rips Putin over ‘stupid war’

Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny on Tuesday slammed the Kremlin and Russian President Vladimir Putin, using a brief appearance in court to cast the Russian leader as a madman and call the war in Ukraine a “stupid” offensive that the country was losing.

Navalny lost an appeal at a Moscow court to overturn a nine-year prison sentence, but he used his time to air his grievances, according to coverage of the hearing from Reuters.

"This is a stupid war which your Putin started,” Navalny said, breaking through a judge’s repeated interruptions. “This war was built on lies. One madman has got his claws into Ukraine and I do not know what he wants to do with it — this crazy thief.”

Navalny, the most well-known opposition leader in Russia who has spent years attempting to uncover and bring to light corruption in Moscow, was sentenced to nine years in prison on fraud charges in March, adding to a 2 1/2-year sentence he was handed last year for breaking parole.

Russia said Navalny broke parole when he traveled to Germany in 2020 for medical treatment after he was poisoned. The activist says that the poisoning was ordered by Moscow.

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[Cypress]

I never feared speaking out against the Iraq War, and that is a great strength of America.

My friend Vassily had to flee Moscow for Turkey because of his anti-war activism, my cousin Misha is probably going to get a knock on his door for running his mouth against the war, and Anastasia, Alexei, and Elizaveta had to go dark on social media so their anti-war sentiments don't earn them a prison term.

I openly told Iraq suppoters on this forum and previous ones that they were f#cking up, big time. And I didn't have the slightest concern about ending up in gitmo.