ThunderBlade + 231 TB July 29, 2019 Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny was discharged from a Moscow hospital on Monday and returned to prison under guard after being treated for what his lawyer and doctor have described as suspected poisoning from a chemical agent. Navalny, 43, was rushed to hospital from jail on Sunday with what his spokeswoman said were signs of an acute allergy with “severe swelling of the face and skin redness”. The Moscow hospital treating him said on Monday it had discharged him after his condition had improved. It said it could not disclose what it believed had been behind his sudden illness due to patient confidentiality. Elena Sibikina, one of the doctors who treated Navalny, told reporters that the idea that he had been poisoned with a chemical substance had “not been proven”. She said his life was not in danger. His own doctor and lawyer said they opposed the “strange” decision to return Navalny to a prison cell where they believe he was somehow poisoned in the first place. 1 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Pavel + 384 PP July 29, 2019 Anyone shocked? 1 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
damirUSBiH + 327 DD July 29, 2019 Not surprised at all!! He isn’t the first anti-Putin to have been poisoned!! 1 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
BALBOA + 37 BR July 29, 2019 I guess they found out he was allergic to polonium👎 2 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
50 shades of black + 254 July 29, 2019 Usually, with Putin's way of thinking about his political enemies, the next and last step is close: .... they'll find him dead. 1 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
francoba + 93 fb July 29, 2019 Obviously there are two key things here: Putin never gives up and the regime does not change. 1 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
pinto + 293 PZ July 29, 2019 The pretence of democracy is obvious! Russia is a one man and one party system and they clearly are not allowing any opposition. 2 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Pavel + 384 PP July 29, 2019 8 minutes ago, francoba said: Obviously there are two key things here: Putin never gives up and the regime does not change. ... it never ends. 1 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
ronwagn + 6,290 July 29, 2019 2 hours ago, ThunderBlade said: Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny was discharged from a Moscow hospital on Monday and returned to prison under guard after being treated for what his lawyer and doctor have described as suspected poisoning from a chemical agent. Navalny, 43, was rushed to hospital from jail on Sunday with what his spokeswoman said were signs of an acute allergy with “severe swelling of the face and skin redness”. The Moscow hospital treating him said on Monday it had discharged him after his condition had improved. It said it could not disclose what it believed had been behind his sudden illness due to patient confidentiality. Elena Sibikina, one of the doctors who treated Navalny, told reporters that the idea that he had been poisoned with a chemical substance had “not been proven”. She said his life was not in danger. His own doctor and lawyer said they opposed the “strange” decision to return Navalny to a prison cell where they believe he was somehow poisoned in the first place. This related story is even more important. https://www.cbsnews.com/news/russia-police-arrest-thousands-in-moscow-after-election-officials-ban-opposition-candidates-city-council/ Police arrest nearly 1,400 in Moscow following election board ban of opposition candidates, opposition leader hospitalized Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Tomasz + 1,608 July 30, 2019 (edited) Well, it would be a lot easier for liberal forces to change russian mindset if you didnt put NATO bases near russian borders just after collapse of USSR and put sanctions on russian economy in last couple of years. Russian can rightfully accuse democratic dissidents that's their fault NATo troops are now 150 km from Petersburg. Because you must be really stupid to start revolution or change rulling elite in a country sorrounded by enemies. This is fortress mentality and antiwestern sentiment is nowadays widespread in Russia. Please read these 2 articles https://www.nytimes.com/1998/05/02/opinion/foreign-affairs-now-a-word-from-x.html -famous US diplomat George Kennan predicted new Cold War and russian return to authocracy because on NATO eastward expansion more than 20 years ago http://www.unz.com/akarlin/when-russians-were-americanophiles/ - Russians were big americanophiles back in 1991 but not anymore thanks to US foreign policy But you couldnt resist encyrcling Russia so now they dont care what you think about russian democracy and dont believe anything you say. Another result is russian-chinese alliance against USA. You literally broke agreement to not expand NATO made with Gorbachov https://nationalinterest.org/blog/the-buzz/newly-declassified-documents-gorbachev-told-nato-wouldnt-23629 Apart from that you killed milions of people after WW2 all over the world and meddled in elections in more than 80 countries so please dont pretend here to be some kind of moral authority because I must remind you at least Iraq invasion where more than 1.000.000 people died after 2003. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foreign_interventions_by_the_United_States https://www.abc.net.au/news/2014-11-10/us-military-deployments-map/5875274 So If you don't like Putin read once more what Kennan said back in 1995. Edited July 30, 2019 by Tomasz 1 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites