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Why don't you base it on his current activities and not some 20 year old episode? Well near current, seeing Putin just killed him.

Didn't say that. Statistica is asking for a membership before revealing the source. I thought you would know. Why it matters. Russian's have lived in fear of speaking their mind for a hundred years. It's worse under window man Putin. A random phone call from nowhere won't get an honest answer. You will only get the official state line. Russians I've known 20+ years will never talk about Putin politics over the phone if they are calling from inside Russia. You think they would answer a random unknown call and say "Yeah, love Navalny, great guy"?

Again. Do you know the source of the survey data that concluded no one liked Navalny? Statistica is not showing a source. How was the survey performed?

A survey about something in Russia? Do you know the source?

I only reflect on the hopes and fears of lifelong Russian friends, not mine, not bias selected media. You might look at your own motives. A few posters simply run on high octane anti Western fuel, and even Russian propaganda.

Really ? I haven't read anything about that MT Russian Nuclear Scientist Jailed 9 Years for Treason Jun 21 2023 Newsweek Russia Jailed Over a Dozen Rocket Scientists on Treason Dec 18 2023 Chemistry World Exodus of scientists from Russia has passed 50,000 since 2018 as more pack their bags to go 8 Jun 2023 Novaya Gazeta Russia is waging a war against its own scientists: special services are searching for traitors among prominent and elderly physicists. Not all of them live to hear the verdict BI India 3 scientists behind Putin's 'unstoppable' missiles were jailed on charges of treason. Russian researchers say they are now living in fear. Science Russian scientist facing treason charges dies in custody Advocates say state’s zeal for arrests has destroyed the lives of researchers July 15 2022 Many more.

Why isn't it? Because Putin... Putin took a perfectly failed state, the USSR, and ruined it. They can't even win a war because of so much corruption. Putin's unstoppable missiles keep getting shot down, his impenetrable air defense systems keep getting penetrated. [watch Putin]. As for your Ponsi scheme sound byte, the US far exceeds Russia in oil production, now 13M to 9.5M bbl/day. Natural gas by even more. I already mentioned the golden economic goose, R&D, where no.1 US far exceeds Russia by a whopping 20 times. Why? Putin. He locks up scientists because he doesn't trust them. Russia's hallowed space program? Far behind and falling. Why? You got it, Putin. Corruption. In 2023 Russia is now 5th worldwide in launched objects, 30 times behind the US. [ref] Your ponzi scheme US launched 81% of all the world's satellites. I too would love to see a strong, free Russia. Best thing for the world. Would you join me in calling for a Putin free Russia so that it can happen?

You missed the heart of capitalism, R&D, which leads to vast global production of useful products and services. The US spends nearly $700 billion on R&D each year, [ref] almost 20 times more than Putin's Russia. Per capita, Thailand outspends Russia on R&D by almost 20%. R&D, my background, is a form of speculation. Sorry to mention Russia, just trying to get back on topic.

False and further off topic. Russia's invasion of Ukraine is a true War of Conquest with the stated and now codified aim of territorial conquest and ownership. Such wars are rare since the World War 2 era. The Iraq war was not a war of territorial conquest. The only war of conquest involving Iraq may have been its invasion of Kuwait in an attempt to control and destabilize oil prices. Stop running guard for despot Putin.

One of many Russian failures. Western technology is supported by a vast underlying industrial pyramid that Russia lacks because Putin's economy supports oligarchs and weapons over people. The old USSR also lacked high precision ball bearings, which were key to Western superior ballistic missile accuracy. And the beat goes on. As Putin threatens to nuke western satellites, Western technology advances to circumvent GPS by putting large atomic-beam clocks in a one inch cube ideal for even the smallest missiles and drones. [reference] A successful Russian future requires ousting Putin and handing power to the good Russian people, what Navalny was fighting for in his own way.

COVID the disease is champion of heart, liver, brain, and gastrointestinal damage. Has been from day one. It's what happens when an animal or lab altered virus gets into humans. We are not accustomed to it, which is one reason to save people.

It's Russians claiming Navalny is a hero. Did you see the mass rally in Georgia? Mostly Russians. The only link between Navalny and Assange is that Assange was functionally a Putin stooge. Had Assange released information only related to wrongdoing, not mass information damaging legitimate US interests, I might consider him a hero too. I doubt Navalny and Assange would like each other. OTH, Navalny was friends with Garry Kasparov, a truly brilliant Russian who also works tirelessly to expose Putin and save his country. Kasparov is in exile in part because he too tried to run for office. Putin would probably kill him if he could. Here is Kasperov on why Putin killed Navalny. If you really want to understand Russia, Putin, and the threat to the West, start here. If you don't trust media, you need to listen to folks like Kasperov.

True, but so does 90 day reporting and the occasional AN post, but that's not related to Covid either.

Mass rally for Navalny in Georgia where Putin can't lock people up.

I agree we live in a world of hard found truth. My understanding about Russia comes from Russia, Russian friends, Russian experts. more Russians, and the USSR where I traveled in my youth. What WIKI"s founder really said was "he cautioned that the website can’t always be trusted to give people the truth” He's mostly refers to US politics. Never trusting anything from WIKI is like never trusting Rattlesnake because he echos Covid misinformation. About Navalny. Even if his highly suspicious convictions were real, which I doubt, it has no bearing on his numerous hero activities like exposing Putin's deep secrets, for which he eventually gave his life.

Hero anyway, or maybe even because of... His 'convictions' were suspended but came at critical times as he was was running for election against Putin cronies. WIKI "Both criminal cases were widely considered politically motivated and intended to bar him from running in future elections[15][16]" Maybe even Super Hero for his efforts against Vladimir Putin.

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Somber truth: Completely unrelated to the fact that Putin is terrified of going out like Gaddafi at the hands of his own people.

You could literally freeze to death in Canada, ... Celsius. No way.

Dmitry Markov, a famous Russian photographer notably arrested at Navalny's 2021 protest, has reportedly died. More Putin fear? A famous photograph of his that captures modern Putin Russia:

It may indicate Putin is getting more worried about something. Hope so. Extreme propaganda, absurd lying, assassinating most anyone, and doomsday weapons can only get you so far. Soon all the damage being done to Russian ships, factories, refineries, military stocks, the economy (what economy?), not to mention nearly half a million dead Russians, many who have families, may catch up to him. Julia Ioffe, the Russian expert, explains that Putin's worst nightmare is going out like Muammar Gaddafi, hunted down by his own people, in a drain pipe, pulled out and beaten to death. Putin apparently watched the video of Gaddafi's death obsessively for days. Fun fact. It was the 2011 NATO led intervention in Libya that lead to Gaddafi's death. Here The Atlantic discuses possible parallels with Ukraine. Like I said, hope so.

You need to prove that prove has multiple meanings. Did you read her paper? She both proved it by elegantly simple experiment and clearly saw the atmosphere/climate implications. She also discovered H2O moisture had a large effect and that condensation would be difficult to treat quantitatively, just like today's climate folks who start hand-waving at the mention of water. She got the whole study in a nutshell. "She was the first scientist to conclude that certain gases warmed when exposed to sunlight, and that rising carbon dioxide (CO2) levels would change atmospheric temperature and could affect climate, a phenomenon now referred to as the Greenhouse effect." WIKI Tyndall worked to advance and prove parts of the model, particularity how CO2 absorbs bands of IR, but full understanding only came after the discovery of quantum physics.

Amazing what remote tele-health outpatient treatment can do.

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Today is Valentines Day. The Russian officer whom the ship is named after, Tsezar Kunikov, died in battle on Valentines day in 1943. Wiki has already updated his WIKI page to note the ship's sinking on the 81st anniversary of his death. I assume the Ukrainian planners where aware.