The imprisoned Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny wrote a letter in prison urging Western politicians to take meaningful action against global corruption, The oligarchs in the entourage imposed personal sanctions.
Navalny wrote an article in The Guardian before the first anniversary of the poisoning on August 20 last year, criticizing Western leaders for not taking more measures to solve the “tricky problems” he admitted.He said his own survival After contacting novichok Blame it on the incompetence and corruption within the spy agency of the Russian Federal Security Service.
Navalny began with a typical satirical style: “Just a year ago, I did not die of chemical weapons poisoning, and corruption seems to have played a big role… When the senior management of a country is focused on protecting rackets and companies When extorting, the quality of covert operations is inevitably affected.”
Navalny believes that in the press conference after the summit, when those responsible often stand next to them, Western leaders are reluctant to face corruption. The subject needs to be elevated from a “secondary project” to what he calls a “big agenda”, as well as war, immigration, poverty and the climate crisis.
It would be “embarrassing” for world leaders and Putin to hold a meeting on this issue, he added sternly, writing: “The richest man in the world has fled his country and is invited to discuss how to deal with his own problems… Very tricky, very embarrassing.”
On Monday, Navalny dictated to his lawyer this article, also published by Le Monde and Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung.Since flying back to Moscow from Germany, he has been in prison, where he spent five months receiving treatment Novichok poisoning.
The Russian authorities arrested him immediately after his return. He was accused and convicted of violating the conditions of parole in a previous criminal case. After a hunger strike in April and treatment in the hospital, he returned to Correctional Facility No. 3 in the Vladimir region in eastern Moscow.
Navalny’s article may further anger the Kremlin. He urged Western governments to impose personal sanctions on oligarchs close to Putin. He wrote that unless this happens, “any anti-corruption speech from the West will be regarded as playing games and heated discussions.”
He added: “There is nothing more frustrating than reading the latest sanctions lists, which are full of the names of intelligence colonels and generals that no one has heard of, but these colonels are carefully eliminated to act in their interests. People. The West needs to be liberated from semantic thinking. In this thinking, the label of’merchant’ is a kind of indulgence, making it difficult for them to be reflected on the sanctions list.”
In a lengthy post, the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs gave its own explanation of what happened when Navalny fell on a plane returning to Moscow from Siberia a year ago. It claimed that Navalny was not poisoned in Russia, but on the plane that stunned him to Berlin.
It claimed that Germany, the United States and other countries participated in a Conspiracy to discredit RussiaOn Thursday, Leonid Volkov, Navalny’s deputy, dismissed the accusation as nonsense. “This is a shame to our country. These bastards are causing irreparable damage to Russia’s international image,” he said.
When asked about Navalny’s performance in prison, Volkov added: “The good news is that there is no bad news.”
