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With Prison Certain and Death Likely, Why Did Navalny Return? An activist who thrived on agitation, he feared irrelevancy in exile. Winning new respect as he continued to lambast the Kremlin from behind bars cost him his life. There was one question that Russians repeatedly asked the opposition leader Aleksei A. Navalny, who died in a remote Arctic penal colony on Friday, and he confessed that he found it a little annoying. Why, after surviving a fatal poisoning attempt widely blamed on the Kremlin, had he returned to Russia from his extended convalescence abroad to face certain imprisonment and possible death? Even his prison guards, turning off their recording devices, asked him why he had come back, he said. “I don’t want to give up either my country or my beliefs,” Mr. Navalny wrote in a Jan. 17 Facebook post to mark the third anniversary of his return and arrest in 2021. “I cannot betray either the first or the second. If your beliefs are worth something, you must be willing to stand up for them. And if necessary, make some sacrifices.” That was the direct answer, but for many Russians, both those who knew him and those who did not, the issue was more complex. Some of them considered it almost a classical Greek tragedy: The hero, knowing that he is doomed, returns home anyway because, well, if he didn’t, he would not be the hero. (more) https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/17/world/europe/why-navalny-returned-to-russia.html or https://web.archive.org/web/20240217104831/https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/17/world/europe/why-navalny-returned-to-russia.html

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Alexei Navalny: Police in Russia crack down on protests as human rights group claims 'at least 100 arrested' "Police in Russia have cracked down on people who gathered to mark the death of opposition leader Alexei Navalny - with one human rights group claiming at least 100 people have been arrested. Footage and pictures from Russia's two largest cities - Moscow and St Petersburg - showed officers ripping away placards from protesters and dragging others away from makeshift memorials to Mr Navalny. Journalists at the site in Moscow - set up at a monument to victims of Soviet repression - were also filmed being detained. (more) https://news.sky.com/story/alexei-navalny-police-in-russia-crack-down-on-protests-as-human-rights-group-claims-at-least-100-arrested-13073537

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Several posts have been removed for mischaracterizing the Special Counsel's stated reasons for not seeking criminal charges against Biden: Pertinent sections from the Executive Summary of the report: "We have also considered that, at trial, Mr. Eiden would likely present himself to a jury, as he did during our interview of him, as a sympathetic, well-meaning, elderly man with a poor memory. Based on our direct interactions with and observations of him, he is someone for whom many jurors will want to identify reasonable doubt. It would be difficult to convince a jury that they should convict him-by then a former president well into his eighties-of a serious felony that requires a mental state of willfulness." AND "Principles of Federal Prosecution. We have also evaluated ·'all relevant considerations" in aggravation and mitigation, as outlined in the Justice Manual, and determined that on balance, these factors do not support prosecution of Mr. Biden.:1 Historically, after leaving office, many former presidents and vice presidents have knowingly taken home sensitive materials related to national security from their administrations without being charged with crimes. This historical record is important context for judging whether and why to charge a former vice president and former president, as Mr. Biden would be when susceptible to prosecution-for similar actions taken by several of his predecessors." https://www.justice.gov/storage/report-from-special-counsel-robert-k-hur-february-2024.pdf

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