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The old people of Khodorkovsky, when he was still sitting his two terms in a row and was a headache of the Kremlin, called his son "a load for the country." He died on February 16 in a colony under the legally not clarified circumstances, Alexei Navalny was perhaps a double load for this country.
The permanent causative agent of the calmness of the Kremlin and the retinue of President Putin, consisting of ministers, high -ranking officials and oligarchs. The source of their nerves and problems. He kept them in good shape. Almost 15 years. The first ten they did not know what to do with him and his investigations about their illegally acquired palaces, yachts, about their kickbacks and mistresses. For the past five years, they tried to neutralize it. He miraculously escaped and again held them in tone, telling in the next investigation how exactly they prepared his poisoning, which was supposed to lead to his death. He even talked with one of his failed killers on the phone, introducing himself as a gullible employee of the GRU with high authorities. The Moscow Art Theater was resting. Danchenko and Stanislavsky would be said to look at Navalny, talking to the killer that this is not a game, but "the actor's true living on stage."
He always laughed in his face and dared. Dermed, dared, dared. Hypoval. Easy, did not go, smartly, presenting facts and evidence.
And in this was his phenomenon - a man born during the Brezhnev stagnation and most of his life who lived with the Putin autocracy, and at the end - totalitarianism.
He did not even try to learn to walk in construction and be a conformist.
They hated him. And for this insolence, and for this innate freedom, and for everything else. And, it seems, for his youth. Not flashed (although already over 40), cheerful and, most importantly, not afraid of anything and nobody. They were taught to walk in construction for 70 years and kiss the file parts of power. He showed the world their wretchedness. A graduate of Yle, a lawyer and a financier, with his brains and a language, he could have made a dizzying career in business or jurisprudence for a long time, live and work not in Russia. And he chose a different path and made an equally dizzying career in the Russian opposition-the same one that can never agree, always swears, but which is still there.

He did not adapt to everyone, even in the camp of this opposition - that emigrant, and intra -Russian. In this circle, he often issued accounts and claims, accusing him of snobbery and egoism, cynicism and arrogance. Separate scores were to the FBK, “smart voting” and his long -standing participation in “Russian marches”. But no one ever disputed his outstanding courage and asceticism: Navalny lived in a modest apartment in Maryino, for days he could sit in the IVS after the next rally, he finally returned to Russia after poisoning, to get an inconsistent number of terms and sits not just in colonies for years, but in a schizo and become a record holder for his stay there ...
This guy seemed to win them sooner or later.
Friends, associates, friends have not seen him alive for almost two years. Infrequent personnel from the court, where he acted on video communications from the colony. Losing weight, but not confusing the ability to joke with loved ones, to dare power in the person of a judge or prosecutor.
His power was afraid even in prison. And therefore neutralized by landing his lawyers. But even after that, the authorities for some reason did not cease to be afraid of Navalny.
He even managed to transfer the news to the wild, where in a manner that was inherent only to him, he joked the prison orders and charters, charging under the anthem and songs of the singer shaman inherent only in his manner. He was not shy to admit his love to his wife Julia and say that he was madly bored with her and the children ... continued to dare Putin and his environment. He said that he was reading the Soviet dissident Anatoly Marchenko, who has served half of his life and died in a colony. He expressed solidarity by political prisoners, especially worried about Alexei Gorinov and Lilia Khanyshev and Ksenia Fadeeva. Wrote:
“The prison system of Russia is the same Soviet Gulag, just in each zone they still put the church. This system is not subject to any reform and in the beautiful Russia the future should be completely built again. ”
His life will end in this modern Gulag. The FSIN a month before the candidate Putin went on his sixth presidential term, told the population through RT and Margarita Simonyan (one of the heroines of the corruption investigations of Navalny) about the opposition’s sudden death in the colony due to a torn blood clot. This is to the conclusions of the forensic examination and autopsy ... and even Gossmi, as you know, reported on “enhanced resuscitation measures”, “which did not help.” Only DVRs with a recording of how Navalny fell after a walk and how they tried to help him, the FSIN for some reason has not yet introduced it through the same RT.
Navalny, probably, would have heard it. And, probably, their wretchedness in the world where he is now ...
With the death of Navalny, the era of the entire Russian opposition from the times of Vladimir Putin ended. For nine years now, Boris Nemtsov, who was killed opposite the Kremlin, has been in the grave, a wild 25-year term is serving in the Siberian colony that Vladimir Kara-Murza, which was stolen for eight and a half years, has been imprisoned in the colony Ilya Yashin, and their safety is now also in question.
On the eve of the new, 2024, Alexei Navalny wrote: “Do not miss. Not scary. Not a lot. Not very. Do not miss you and do not let your loved ones miss you. Stay good, honest people, and next year try to become a little more good and honest. I, in general, to myself, I wish. Do not hurt, take care of yourself.
Everyone Arctic hugs and Zapolar greetings. I love everyone. "
Without Navalny is already boring.
The editors of Novaya Gazeta Europe expresses deep condolences to the family of Alexei Navalny.
Julia, Lyudmila Ivanovna, Anatoly Ivanovich, Dasha, Zakhar, Oleg ...
Whatever happens further, no matter how much Russian propaganda lies and no matter how it dances on the bones (and the propaganda sharks from Solovyov to Simonyan are already doing this), the whole civilized world knows your husband, son, father and brother as one of the most courageous people in the world, which has become a real symbol of the struggle not only with corruption, which he so meticulous, but with disagreed from it. their ostentatious greatness with totalitarian power.
Alexey is the way you made it - with your upbringing, warmth and love. In the benefits that he still brought his long -suffering country, your priority contribution.
Thank you for Alexei.
Until the last, he tried to prevent Russia from turning Russia into North Korea. He taught the thinking part of Russian society to want changes and not to be slaves.
Bright memory. And do not forget anything.