Dresden Peace Prize goes to the late Alexei Navalny – DW – 05/12/2024
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The widow of late Russian dissident Alexei Navalny accepted the Dresden Peace Prize on his behalf on Sunday. The posthumous award honored the opposition politician’s pro-democracy work.

The widow of late Russian dissident Alexei Navalny accepted the Dresden Peace Prize on his behalf on Sunday. The posthumous award honored the opposition politician’s pro-democracy work.

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  • D61 [any]@hexbear.netEnglish
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    6 months ago

    At the end of the 1990s, in his mid-20s, he became involved in the left-liberal Yabloko party but was expelled in 2007 due to conflicts with the party leadership and his nationalist views. He was subsequently active in a nationalist movement — a reason that he was also controversial in Russian opposition circles.

    • boredtortoise@lemm.ee
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      6 months ago

      Russia is pretty fucked when all the political options are inside the nazi sphere. Navalny was like Röhm or Strasser to Putin, oppose the head of the hydra and suffer the consequences