Edward Slavsquat – edwardslavsquat.com Sept 17, 2024
What are Russians saying about the death of Alexei Navalny? Let’s have a look.
Reactions from politicians
- Russian State Duma Speaker Vyacheslav Volodin said Brussels and Washington are to blame for Navalny’s death. He added that Navalny’s death benefits countries that are pushing for more sanctions against Moscow.
- LDPR leader Leonid Slutsky said that the death of one person was a disaster but he was more concerned about the conflict in Ukraine. He vowed that Russia would not allow Navalny’s death to be “used in the interests of the West”.
- State Duma Deputy Sergei Mironov, the leader of A Just Russia — For Truth, said Navalny’s death “benefits Russia’s enemies. It is necessary to investigate the circumstances of the death and take measures to repel the information attack of the West.” He concluded that the West was to blame for the death, which came as Moscow was calling for negotiations with Washington.
- Deputy Chairman of the State Duma Commission to Investigate Interference of Foreign States in the Internal Affairs of Russia, Mikhail Delyagin, said that Western countries will likely use Navalny’s death as a to introduce new sanctions. He also predicted that the death could be used as a pretext to seize Russian assets that were frozen at the beginning of the SMO.
- Vladimir Dzhabarov, Deputy Chairman of the Federation Council Committee on International Affairs, described Navalny’s death as an “accident” and insisted that the Russian government had no motive to harm Navalny while he was in prison.
Reactions from Telegram channels and commentators
Russian Telegram channels were quick to point out that Yulia Navalnaya made a surprise appearance at the Munich Security Conference, where she spoke about her husband’s death, announced just hours prior.
“You can believe in a coincidence, but a series of coincidences that benefit one side is very difficult [to believe],” wrote Roman Alekhin, a military volunteer who curates a popular Telegram channel.
Tot samyy olen, another popular Telegram channel, expressed similar suspicions:
Obviously, the death of the extremist oppositionist Navalny happened at the right time—exactly after the interview with Tucker Carlson, in the midst of the presidential campaign in Russia and during the Munich Security Conference, which very conveniently brought together all the main actors of this anti-Russian play, including Navalny’s wife. All of them almost instantly made accusatory speeches at press conferences specially convened for this purpose. […]
All the circumstances of the mysterious death have yet to be clarified, but we believe that even after the examination no one will publicly answer all the questions. One of the reasons for the transfer of chief prisoner Navalny from institution to institution according to a secret protocol was precisely due to fears for his life. Navalny was the most guarded prisoner in Russia, who was watched 24 hours a day … We believe that some [Russian officials] are clearly at risk of losing their shoulder straps.
Political commentator Anatoly Nesmiyan argued that Navalny’s decision to return to Russia, where he faced certain imprisonment, suggested that he was being groomed for a “Mandela project”. Navalny’s death raises questions about who inside Russia “guaranteed” Navalny’s safety and why this “project” was ultimately derailed, Nesmiyan wrote.
RT editor-in-chief Margarita Simonyan wrote on Telegram that numerous “victims” of Navalny’s “custom-made investigations” had contacted her and gloated over Navalny’s death (they used an expression, “Земля стекловатой”, that basically translates to “I hope he doesn’t rest in peace”). Simonyan said she wanted to make similar statements but wanted to show self-control during Lent.
Sergei Karnaukhov, a former government official who runs a popula Telegram channel and makes regular appearances as a political analyst on state television, said that Navalny’s death was an attempt by the West to destabilize Russia:
Before the elections and presidential inauguration, the West will try to launch a powerful and multifactorial attack on our country. All this will be paid for, coordinated and filled by Western intelligence services, as well as supplemented by the work of Ukrainian special services and sabotage and subversive structures. The task that Western intelligence services will try to solve is to disrupt the presidential elections in the Russian Federation. At the same time, they understand well that nothing will work out. In this regard, all emphasis will be transferred to the post-election period. The voting results will not be recognized, the elected head of state will be declared an illegitimate “outlaw”, increasing the isolation of Russia.
And lastly, who could have committed this crime, and most importantly, how? We will certainly return to this question.
Military-political blogger Yuriy Podolyaka described Navalny’s death as “inevitable”:
After all, it was obvious that Navalny’s sponsors, realizing that there was zero benefit from him alive, and a huge benefit from him dead … would once again try to finish him off. Moreover, when it would be of most benefit. Now is just such a moment.
Liberal news portal “We Can Explain” compiled a list of reactions from Kremlin critics.
“This is a shocking event that will be difficult for the authorities to use favorably. It is likely that they will try not to ignore it. But the feeling of an electoral ‘holiday’ will still be reduced,” political scientist Mikhail Vinogradov told the outlet. “It’s too early to judge by the reaction of society … So far, the main intrigues are more likely related to the world reaction to what happened, since Navalny was often perceived as politician No. 2 [in Russia].”
Other commentators cited by the channel implicated the Kremlin in Navalny’s “murder”.
Liberal anti-Kremlin outlet The Bell also blamed the Russian government for Navalny’s death, claiming that it was “absurd” to suggest that the West to orchestrate the death of Russia’s most high-profile prisoner:
The reaction of Russian propaganda and second-line officials boils down to two theses: the West is to blame for Navalny’s death, and the Kremlin did not benefit from his murder. The first thesis, suggesting that the West was able to reach the most guarded Russian prisoner in one of the most distant colonies, is too absurd to talk about. The second thesis follows tradition: the Kremlin’s non-involvement in the murder of Boris Nemtsov was explained in exactly the same way in 2015. But it will be very difficult to argue this thesis in the case of Alexei Navalny. […]
The domestic political risks associated with Navalny’s murder are also small. Director of the Levada Center (foreign agent) Denis Volkov, in a conversation with The Bell today, confidently said that one should not expect serious protests in Russia now: protesting is dangerous, useless, and Navalny’s popularity has declined since 2021. “By the beginning of 2023, he had already dropped out of the top ten most trusted politicians. After this, Navalny’s rating fluctuated in an open question at 1%. The lowest figure is January 2024,” Volkov said.
But the inevitable decline in interest in Navalny after he was imprisoned did not mean that he ceased to be a long-term threat in the eyes of the Kremlin. “When the situation itself turned towards greater authoritarianism, people’s faith in any changes dried up, the sociological effect that Denis Volkov talks about takes place. But it could just as easily change in the opposite direction. In the long term, Navalny remained a strong and popular politician with large accumulated political capital. In this way, he certainly posed a threat to Putin,” says Re:Russia project director Kirill Rogov.
Russia’s anti-vax community noted (somewhat jokingly) that reports of Navalny dying from a blood-clot should raise eyebrows.
Reactions on internet forums
A thread about Navalny’s death on popular Russian discussion forum Yaplakal currently has 180 pages of comments. Although forum users expressed a wide range of views, the most-upvoted comments highlighted the curious timing of Navalny’s death, and how it would hurt, rather than benefit, the Kremlin.
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Navalny’s death is the “most epic” news before the election, the top-rated comment on Yaplakal sarcastically observed. (source)
“Volodya [Putin] doesn’t need this. The entire leadership of the Federal Penitentiary Service will be f***ed for this. This is the main prisoner of the entire Russian Federation. Now the liberals will canonize him.”
“It was immediately clear that he wouldn’t be released [from prison] alive.”
A brief comment from Edward
As even anti-Kremlin liberals admit, Navalny was basically out of the picture by 2021, and he posed no meaningful threat to the upcoming elections. It would be strange for Putin to announce that he was ready to negotiate with Washington, and then a few days later order a murder that would likely make negotiations impossible. The timing of Navalny’s death is incredibly suspicious. There’s no way around that.
However, if the West is able to kill Russia’s most high-profile political prisoner, this means Russian intelligence/security services are clearly compromised.
Some have even suggested that pro-war hardliners in the Russian government ordered Navalny’s death to prevent a negotiated settlement in Ukraine, which would have likely involved unpopular compromises from both sides.
Who knows? One thing is for sure, though: This is bad news for the peasants. Most news is bad news for the peasants. Sorry about that.
Directly related to Putins interview!!.
You can’t have Vlad speaking freely…..all interviews must be via the media so they can interpret what is being said.
Most likely Britain’s equivalent political prisoner would get the same if the opportunity arose.If they put him in the American gulag he’ll be dead within six months.
Let’s hope the public remember the media’s role in all this when Britain erupts.
So that’s
1)Secret Police MI5 on the Thames
2)The media
3)…Guy Fawkes II..parliament.
4)Unfortunately Vlad was right…parliament is run by the Secret Police MI5.(and associated organisations)Often cooperation is achieved via blackmail often sexually related….the thugs at MI5 specialise in it …
Recall that maybe 75%+ of problems in Britain are caused by the government….that’s why you get bizarre policies like putting up illegal immigrants in hotels while there are tens of thousands on the streets….many of whom will have perished over winter.
Martial law can’t be that far away…..all you need is some trigger….
Incidently the volunteer lifeboat service has had a MASSIVE drop-off in donations because the donations are used to rescue illegal immigrants.For some strange reason this fact has escaped the notice of the British media!!!
The bullshit media are forgetting that their bullshitted audience are growing up fast and coming of age.
I see all are singing from the same song-sheet.
All in lock-step.
Daft bastards.
There is an Englishman who lives in Moscow, speaks fluent Russian, who has a Vlog on the tube, he went around Moscow asking the general public their opinion or thoughts on the dead guy, not one person had a positive or good thing to say about him, most generally couldn’t care less!
Qui Bono , clearly not Putin. It has been claimed that the death traitor received a package of foods from his supporters, ? neocons. If true, he possibly was poisoned or suffered an adverse event from the covid shot. This death of a traitor is once again to demonize Putin and also a diversion from the genocide taking place in Palestine.
The story broke on Friday – the day always chosen for Big Stories. I even got a comment to that effect on the Daily Mail thread. But anything serious, like Gonzalo Lira and his list of Ukrainians tortured and killed by State neo-nazis is ‘moderated’. Carl Jones, take note. Used in context, the use of the word ‘nazi’ makes sense.
Podgier Paltrey on February 18, 2024 at 10:38 am
On the money, Roger – except ‘Let’s hope the public remember the media’s role in all this when Britain erupts.’
The majority now take it all at Face Value and remember nothing; the appalling short term memory of the post- Grammar/Secondary School generations was something even The Guardian’s ‘Dumb and Dumber’ Survey of the 1990s admitted.
This weekend, I got very drunk, this Navalny psy-op was so nasty and depressing.
I seriously considered the idea of doing what the MSM CLAIM Navalny did – in his ‘memory’ start up a genuine ‘BRITISH Anti-Corruption Foundation’ – after all the pontificating from the top politicians about the extreme repression of Freedom of Speech by the most evil dictator who ever lived, they would have to pretend to greet and support my Anti-Corruption Foundation, daren’t do otherwise after all those impassioned speeches about tyranny.
There are, after all, the paedophile networks, the bombings, the arson, the murders, the repressed Nene type Reports and Care Home Investigations and on and on and –
so of course, in reality one would simply be murdered, but not so’s it looked like it.
There is not going to be a large scale and courageous British Resistance because the Raw Human Material is no longer there.
Russia and its people will always have the scale, the degree of hardship, necessary to work with in order to survive and thrive .
They also – and this is why the East will continue as the West implodes – take Orthodox Faith in the Higher Paternal Power seriously whilst getting on with the hard work themselves.
They have Vision and the Long Term perspective.
No matter how courageously one behaves in Britain, even to perhaps popular acclaim – the vast majority of Britons will not be there to back you up if things become at all serious .
The moslem population have the Orthodox Faith in UK. ‘Seperation of Church and State’ is strictly intended for Christians only.
He’s probably not even dead and was feigning opposition all along Just another Judeo – Masonic operative paraded across the counterfeit political stage. All politicians and political parties , whether in Russia, U.S. , UK or any other country are working the JWO agenda. Everything else is just theater.
@ phyllis costa:
I agree with your assessment. Also after Navalny’s poisoning and being sent to Germany for treatment, the West determined that his usefulness alive had come to an end. Plus the possibility that Navalny had asked for huge sums of money – 20 to 30 million dollars, in order to continue to be a spy for the CIA / MI6, when he would return to Russia after treatment for poisoning. The West determined that since Navalny was in a German medical facility, they could give him the Covid VAX as Germany required vaccination. Then add the possibility that Navalny had a genetic predisposition like a heart or lung condition and you have a perfect storm that would eventually lead to his death. Then add the fact that Navalny was in a Siberian type gulag / prison above the Arctic circle, the extended cold could cause stress on the body and his immune response would be triggered, thus eventually leading to his death.
I bet the blood clots came out of his body like beads on a string and were magnetic as well, aligned like a magnet ; all signs of the presence of Graphene oxide in the vaccines.
“The Raw Human Material”…..(as above) which is a very diplomatic way of putting it… they ain’t up to it.
They’re all too ready to suck up and do each other in.
Maybe too many have been killed in Britain’s countless wars,and only the sycophants remain….like the sort of trash populating MI5….
They seem to be able to tolerate major hypocrisy and live with it….and keep quiet.WHO could tolerate the murder of a colleague like Dr David Kelly the weapons inspector and stay silent.
“An English man’s word is his honour” which is a preposterous self deluding statement….but it once may have been true?!.
What about the French saying “perfidious Albion”……..
Obviously the English should round-up the sleazy backstabbing at MI5 …and start afresh and stop kidding themselves that the English Secret Police are anything but a bunch of self serving c**ts.
This view is often held by members of the special forces,never mind the BULLSHIT contained in propaganda novels like Bravo Two Zero.
Essentially the Intel services REALLY work for the banks and international companies like RTZ.
So you end up with the lowest standard of living in Western Europe and a 1% amongst the richest in the world paying ridiculously low taxes…..and the “proletariat ” kicked around and manipulated by them.One of their greatest surprises was the reaction to the Liverpool disaster….Murdoch (crypto jew) is still hated to this day.
But as the above stated….they have been brow beaten into submission and they ain’t up to it anymore …
The acceptance of the immigrant invasion is proof of that .
Perhaps the greatest crime committed against the British people by the “elite” was the First World War where the best of people were massacred en masse and died in muddied Graves in France.
No wonder the series “The Monocled Mutineer” is rarely mentioned and is subject to unofficial restriction democracy style.
COMMUNISM in full swing.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-PE-f_ar30U
Item used and disposed of. Not sayin hes dead.
Guy Reid-Brown–the boring “news” makes you get very drunk? You must be drunk a lot of times
Stormin’ Norman :-
‘I bet the blood clots came out of his body like beads on a string and were magnetic as well, aligned like a magnet ; all signs of the presence of Graphene oxide in the vaccines.’
Could very well be.
The Russian Government should make the inquest public.
They should go as far as filming it and putting the film online .
Yes, it would cause outrage in Western MSM etc – but stuff them – the pornographic repeated replay of 911 & the Kennedy Assassination and that vietkong being shot in the head by an American Soldier, and the George Floyd accident that was framed as murder –
THICKOwesterners are so obtuse that they need to be knocked over the head with Truth just so a portion of it sinks in.
When you are dealing with a Groupthink that believes one man murdered another on the basis of no evidence and no body nothing less will do –
‘The British Anti-Corruption Foundation ‘ – has a ring about it, don’t you think?
The Putintards are out defending their bolshevik ghoul
With all the ‘ Weeping & Gnashing Of Teeth’ for this Navalmy non-entity in the THICKBrit Media…
you could be forgiven for thinking that ZOGUK’s “Man from MI6” had croaked!
LMFAO!!🤣
Group Captain Stoke-Mandiville on February 19, 2024 at 12:56 am
‘Perfidious Albion’ was a phrase that occurred to me today as well, along with a particular description of the First World War – ‘Lions led by Donkeys’
The Lions have died away with the old Working Class -who voted for their own demise year in year out it has to be said.
They weren’t to know they were a despised Means to an End for a particular type of middle class intellectual property who despised them and did no REAL work themselves
‘lewis jones on February 19, 2024 at 11:39 am
Guy Reid-Brown–the boring “news” makes you get very drunk? You must be drunk a lot of times’
It just shows you different things trigger different people – I am aware it seems odd, but it makes perfect sense to me 🙂
‘carl stone on February 19, 2024 at 7:02 pm
The Putintards are out defending their bolshevik ghoul’
I don’t know if I’m included in that delicate little critique of the perceived tenor of this thread +never use one word where ten will do+
But the whole point about why, as expressed on another comment today, I was triggered by Jeremy Vine’s Mockingbird use of the phrase ‘Navalsky, a vocal critic of Vladimir Putin’ is that I LOATHE that dirty and childish Propaganda Trick of conflating the Nation you want to demonise with the name of a single personality.
Y’know, Saddam/ Hitler etc –
I am not at all sure where Putin is on the spectrum between Great Patriotic Leader and ‘might be Controlled Opposition’, but I do know that Putin has opened the way for a lot of good to come to Russia .
Those Orthodox Churches being built, those burgeoning Christian Families, thousands coming in from the West, are a fact of life, not One Man’s Rhetoric(although he is very good at articulating this)
There is much more I could go on about – you might think that banning LGBTQ indoctrination and declaring 2024 as The Year of the Family is being Controlled Opposition, but it is actually being manifested in a real and practical way .
Once those children are born into secure families, they are born.
As I always maintain – Russia owns the Future, and this is Prophetic in scale – I do not conflate Russia with a single personality, Western MSM-style –
I am as prone as everybody else here to seeing the world as a Political War Game – but these new hardworking families concentrate on their own constructive lives for a much greater proportion of their Waking Hours than on ‘current affairs’ online.
It was Obama, of all the ridiculous bare faced scoundrels, who I read saying ‘Be the difference you want to see in the world’.
They are doing that.
Putin has, more than any other individual, Controlled Opposition or not, enabled that.
Doesn’t make me equate One Man with an entire landmass crossing 11 timezones .