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Alexei Navalny has died in prison
(www.reuters.com)
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Looks like protests have erupted since this happened, with some protest signs in english, and people are getting arrested too. Does anyone know what’s going on with that?
Sounds like a spontaneous opportunistic NED/CIA/western-billionaire-NGO colour revolution attempt to me.
That was my immediate thought too. The English signs threw me off the most, it’s not like they need to reach a wider audience so what gives? It’s very fishy…
Signs in English used to be quite widespread in such gatherings. Same with pro-EU "protests" in Georgia, Armenia and back in 2014 in Ukraine.
Yeah and the smell of money was always following them right to the Washington.
English signs can mean two things:
I reckon that neither is going to convince any significant number of Russians of anything other than the fact that these libs are making fools of themselves.
Not much. I found numbers from 55 to 400 arrested country-wide in two days. They'll get 20 days and a fine at the very worst. I think you can surmise how widespread and consequential these protests are. As I saw someone say on TG Navalny's hamsters remaining in the country can probably be caught on one camera shot from a drone if they were in one place.
So a small group going feral for Western propaganda? Very cool…