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Czech President Milos Zeman believes that Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny should not be considered a fighter for democracy.
The oppositionist Alexei Navalny, arrested in Russia, is a Russian nationalist. The President of the Czech Republic, Milos Zeman, announced it on January 31 on the air of the radio station Frekvence 1.
“He supported the annexation of Crimea, he participated in a series of nationalist marches and thirdly, he supported the Stalinist deportations of Chechens, so what kind of fighter for democracy is he? I think he is a Russian nationalist,” said the president. Czech.
He believes that Navalny is only pretending to be a politician who opposes the regime of Russian President Vladimir Putin.
“He is only against Putin, and this is a very big difference,” Zeman said.
In March 2014, when Russia occupied Crimea, Navalny claimed that the Russian president’s actions on the peninsula, in his opinion, were not geopolitical, but “Putin’s personal revenge against the entire Ukrainian people, who with his revolution gave a bad example for Russians. “
In October of that year, Navalny said that Crimea would remain part of Russia and would never become part of Ukraine again for the foreseeable future. “Crimea is a sandwich with sausage, or what, to carry around?” – Then said the opponent.
In December 2016, Navalny announced that, after assuming the presidency, he would hold “the most honest referendum in the world” in Crimea, the results of which would become the starting point for “making a roadmap and understanding how to solve this problem in general. . “
In November 2019, Navalny said about Crimea that “minced meat cannot be returned.” According to him, the annexation of the peninsula was illegal, but there are already 2 million people with Russian passports.
January 17, 2021 Navalny returned from Germany, where he was treated after the poisoning, to Russia.… He was immediately arrested in the Yves Rocher case and sent under arrest for 30 days… In 2014, as part of this case, the opponent received a 3.5-year suspended sentence and was on probation until December 29, 2020. He had to come to register with the Federal Prison Service at least twice per month, but remained in Germany from August to January. Now a suspended sentence can be replaced by a real one.
In connection with the arrest of Navalny on January 23 and 31, actions in support of the opposition were carried out in dozens of Russian cities. On January 31, security officials from the Russian Federation arrested more than 5,000 protesters.
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