In the Kremlin

There will be more accusations against Navalny, everything is absurd

October 30, 2013 Sergey Parkhomenko

A chain of charges of criminal and economic cases, Navalny’s accusations of various kinds of abuse, fraud, theft and so on - this is a thing in this case expected and natural, because the task of the authors is simply to disgrace Navalny, and nothing more.

Since he positions himself as a politician as a fighter with corruption, the authorities are trying to demonstrate that he himself is just a corrupt official. We heard Putin carefully developed this topic in public conversations on Valdai. Since he completely has nothing to present to Navalny along the political line, he completely begins to say that the one who opens against corruption is involved in it. Therefore, they are fabricated against Navalny - I emphasize this word, they are fabricated - more and more accusations in the area where it is most active and dangerous. I have no doubt that if tomorrow he is interested in, suppose, problems of healthcare, then some accusation is fabricated against him on the medical part. What he is doing, they will blame him for.

In my opinion, this is just a certificate of how the Russian law enforcement system is controlled. She works by order, and does what the authorities tell her based on political reasons.

Therefore, this series of accusations against Navalny does not surprise me at all. I think that she will continue, Navalny himself spoke a lot about this, and he is absolutely right. There will be more accusations, and they will be more and more absurd, since the authorities come from one simple consideration: the more we talk about this, the more we denigrate the name of Navalny and spoil his reputation. And what is really there - no one will particularly understand.

Navalny himself, in my opinion, should treat this as inevitable inconvenience, inevitable costs of his political activity. Realizing that this is one of the few weapons that power can use against it and, of course, will continue to use it, he must continue his work as if nothing had happened. Unfortunately, this takes a lot of effort, obviously, he was forced to spend a lot of time with lawyers, in the courts, and in this regard, the degree of his performance is reduced, but these are the conditions in which he works, these are the costs that he carries, the inevitable costs from the speech against the authorities. For the Russian government, this is so familiar and natural: to build their opposition to political opponents on such forms of using the law enforcement system and judicial bodies.

I think that people who know who is the bulk, are quite capable of correctly interpreting these accusations. There is no reason to suspect them that they cannot figure it out. For people who do not know who he is who is trying to make their own idea of ​​Navalny on the basis of the programs of the first and second channels, of course, these accusations are convincing, simply because they are not interested in a different point of view and do not use other sources of information. But as the latest elections showed, Navalny knows how to work with them, and it is clear that the oncoming tactics of Navalny, the tactics of direct contact with the voter, direct information delivery, is especially needed and especially effective here.

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