(Reuters) - Jailed Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny has complained of being poisoned, assaulted and deprived of proper medical care, but on Monday he disclosed he faced a new challenge: being forced to listen to a pro-Putin pop singer at 0500 every morning.
Navalny, 47, a former lawyer who rose to prominence more than a decade ago by lampooning President Vladimir Putin’s elite and voicing allegations of vast corruption, is currently in a jail about 60 km (40 miles) north of the Arctic Circle.
Sentenced to stay in prison until he is 74 on charges he says were trumped up to keep him out of politics, Navalny said his morning regime now consisted of listening to the Russian national anthem before being played “I am Russian,” a patriotic song performed by a pro-Putin singer called “Shaman”.
Russian nationalist who hates Ukraine being upset is good news.
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Mate, have you ever looked up this numpty’s views?
He’s a self professed Russian right wing nationalist who doesn’t support Ukraine.
The enemy of your enemy does not magically become your friend.
He’s a lib with an anti-immigrant and nationalist streak, and I’m no fan of his. But a cursory glance at Wikipedia shows that he’s 100% against the war in Ukraine. So much so that he thinks crimea should be returned to Ukraine and that Russia should pay reparations. Whether he’d actually stand by that if he were in power is questionable, again, he’s a lib. But as far as we know, he’s about as pro-ukraine as a Russian can be
Good to see he’s changed his tune on this, now I’ll go from hate to mild-dislike because he’s still a nationalist.
I do wonder if he’d have said the same if Russia was able to pull it off in 3 days or whatever they originally said.
When did he say that? 2006 or so?