It’s two days ago, neighborhood Alexei Navalny announced that the autopsy of the Russian leader had been rigged.
The 289 pages of the autopsy that the Kremlin released was not enough to lie, because Navalny died from the beatings and sacrifice he received in the polar penal colony IK-3 Lobo.
about life Yulia Navalnayayou stated that your body was damaged and exposed to chemicals for six days.
A few weeks ago, at the Council of Ministers, the same place where Putin ended up in 2007, the governments of the United Kingdom, Sweden, France, Germany and the Low Countries released statements that Navalny had been administered epibatidine.
Point out the fact that a regime like Russia, which has no problem keeping defenseless people in its diary and kidnapping tens of thousands of Ukrainian children, tried to hide the real reason for Navalny’s death.
The answer is very simple: I want to avoid Navalny becoming a martyr for freedom.
Pictures of Navalny’s autopsy.
What postulates did Navalny defend so that Putin cared so much about them, even after his death? These are the main aspects of Alexei Navalny’s political thinking:
1. Fight against corruption: One of Navalny’s main battlefronts was the fight against what was classified as a “kleptocracy”.
Navalny believed that Russia was the way to fight structural corruption and created the Anti-Corruption Fund (FBK) to denounce it.
One of the most impressive actions of his anti-corruption campaign was the release of the document Putin’s palacewhere the construction of a $115 million mansion in occupied Crimea was reported, which would include a private hospital, a cryonics chamber or a 240 m² personal residence.
According to Navalny, this team was financed with money from the family.
2. Democratization of Russia: The opposition leader referred to his country as a “simulated democracy” or “electoral authoritarianism”.
As an alternative to this regime, Navalny proposed a “real democracy” based on free and competitive elections, an independent judiciary, freedom of thought, and overall political control over the electoral system.
Navalny was very aware of the electoral manipulation carried out by Putin, and therefore he was a party “smart vote” it is decided to concentrate the vote on the candidate with the greatest possibility of delaying United Russia.
So Navalny also voted for Jablok’s candidates Sergei Mitrokhinto independent candidates como Sergei Furgaland including communist candidates such as Pavel Grudinin.
The most successful moment of this strategy came in 2019, when 20 counter-candidates entered the Russian Duma, disrupting the hegemony of United Russia.
Quizzes in 2020 Navalny suffered the first assassination attempt using the nerve agent Novichok.
“Navalny is committed to maintaining cordial relations with the West, but not to copy our model”
3. Strong but not captured: From an economic point of view, Navalny was not an ultra-liberal. The economic program was aimed at freeing the Russian economy from the grip of the oligarchs.
For this reason, he advocated transparency, the reduction of monopolies, the redistribution of revenues generated by hydrocarbons, and an economy less controlled by the Kremlin.
He realized that Russia needed a state with enormous economic resources to obtain the means to cover Russia’s vast territory.
This economic vision, which for many could be classified as Keynesian, contrasted with the oligarchic and rentier capitalism that forced Putin to appear on the public stage.
4. Russian civic nationalism: Yes, Navalny’s ideas do not coincide with de Alexander Duginthe opposition leader was the lejos of Western positions advocated by figures such as Kozyrev, Germans or Yavlinsky.
Navalny has pledged to maintain cordial relations with the West, but not to copy our model. Although he openly and harshly criticized the invasion of Ukraine in 2022, he was not averse to the 2014 de-occupation of Crimea.
Navalny championed what he called “civic democratic patriotism,” a model based on liberalism embellished with Russian nationalism. Something similar happened with NATO, which, although demonized by Putin, was criticized by Navalny for its expansionist mission.
Navalny was a very dangerous leader for Putinwhich was liberal enough to be accepted by the West and nationalist enough to be acceptable to the Russians.
When he appeared at the Moscow meeting in 2013, he won 27% of the vote. He previously led protests in 2011 that left Putin fearing for his survival.
In order to renew the intent of asesinato in Germany in 2020, Navalny decided to fly to Russia to die. To become a martyr of freedom.
*** Alberto Priego is Professor of International Relations at the Pontifical University of Comillas.
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