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ancianita

(35,950 posts)
Sat Apr 8, 2017, 10:09 PM Apr 2017

The Navalny video that lit up Moscow protests -- viewed 18,000,000 times

This video was published by opposition leader Alexei Navalny’s Anti Corruption Foundation, and features documentation of $1 billion in property that Putin's puppet, Medvedev, accumulated through the use of ‘puppet charity foundations’.

In the video, Putin's political opponent, Navalny, explains how an email hack allowed investigators to expose the Medvedev’s lavish spending.

Starting with a pair of Nike sneakers, the video delves through the Prime Minister’s vast properties, including a Tuscan vineyard, a ski chalet and two yachts ...

We need to remember that Putin might or might not care about a video that makes his former president puppet look as corrupt as he is, or how little Putin cares for the opinions of the West.

But. Popular uprisings like this are Putin’s worst nightmare. Muscovites hate reliving the old tsarist days of oligarchic looting.

The oppressed Russian people, not their dictator, Putin, need support from the West.

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