Alexei Navalny, a Russian opposition politician, could be exchanged in the coming months for the killer from Berlin’s Tiergarten.
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BILD journalist Philip Pyatov analyzes whether the death of Alexei Navalny was beneficial to the Kremlin right now, a month before the Russian presidential elections. According to him, perhaps the authorities were afraid of the protests after the announcement of the voting results. Navalny could support them even from prison.
For years, Navalny has been the personification of Russian discontent with Putin, which has never subsided in a certain part of society. He was the leader of the demonstrations. The only non-system alternative. If a spark had ignited during the pseudo-presidential elections, Navalny could have turned it into a fire even from prison, writes Pyatov.
He notes that Navalny “could be fired in the coming weeks or months.” The oppositionist could be exchanged for the Russian Vadim Krasikov, who killed the former Chechen commander in the Tiergarten park in the center of Berlin. Vladimir Putin spoke about a possible exchange in an interview with Tucker Carlson.
Navalny’s death shows how truly unstable Putin’s system is, Julius von Freitag-Loringhofen, head of the Friedrich Naumann Foundation in Moscow from 2018-2020, told BILD. “If the situation were stable, the Kremlin would not have to imprison, torture and kill opponents. To the outside world, Putin behaves as if he is 100% confident in his power. But this act indicates how afraid he is of the Russian opposition. There were reports of a possible agreement: Russia would bring back the Tiergarten killer and fire American journalist Evan Gershkovich and Alexei Navalny. But the Kremlin clearly did not want to do this under any circumstances.
The White House announced a speech by President Joe Biden in connection with reports of Navalny’s death.
Source: Racurs
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