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Title: Navalnaya Tells World Not To Recognize Putin As 'Legitimate' Leader
Post by: Elderberry on March 21, 2024, 11:42:13 am

Radio Free Europe 3/19/2024

Yulia Navalnaya, the widow of Russian opposition politician Aleksei Navalny, has urged the international community to refuse to recognize President Vladimir Putin as a "legitimate" leader of the country after elections last weekend that have "no meaning."

Talking to her supporters in a video message posted on social media on March 19, Navalnaya urged them to "not give up" in opposing Putin, who easily won the vote with more than 87 percent of the ballots in the absence of rival candidates after having any potential challenger jailed or barred from running.

"The result of this election has no meaning. Putin wants to show the world that he apparently has huge support," Navalnaya said.

"These elections are over but nothing is finished. On the contrary, we should gather our strength and work harder than ever before," she added.

Putin claimed a fifth presidential term with a landslide victory in a tightly controlled March 15-17 election, which has been condemned by the West as neither free nor fair, as he sought to prove overwhelming popular support for his full-scale invasion of Ukraine and increasingly repressive policies.

More: https://www.rferl.org/a/russia-elections-navalnaya-no-significance-putin-mafia/32868475.html (https://www.rferl.org/a/russia-elections-navalnaya-no-significance-putin-mafia/32868475.html)

Title: Re: Navalnaya Tells World Not To Recognize Putin As 'Legitimate' Leader
Post by: Smokin Joe on March 21, 2024, 02:13:05 pm

Ah yes, "free elections".
Vote, Comrade!
Josef Stalin Yes or No?

(What Biden wants here)

Title: Re: Navalnaya Tells World Not To Recognize Putin As 'Legitimate' Leader
Post by: PeteS in CA on March 21, 2024, 02:38:21 pm

I'm sure Putin will be as devastated by this as Stalin was 80 or 90 years ago.

Title: Re: Navalnaya Tells World Not To Recognize Putin As 'Legitimate' Leader
Post by: catfish1957 on March 21, 2024, 02:38:36 pm

I think Putin wanted to avoid another Solzhenitsyn situation, and what that caused.  I hope Navalnaya's wife's story and cause gets some traction, and she can gather some momentum in her advocacy efforts.  Seeing Putin hanging from a light pole is a good thing.

Title: Re: Navalnaya Tells World Not To Recognize Putin As 'Legitimate' Leader
Post by: DefiantMassRINO on March 21, 2024, 03:15:26 pm

Stupid diplomats; he who has his trigger on the gun is the "legitimate" leader.

Title: Re: Navalnaya Tells World Not To Recognize Putin As 'Legitimate' Leader
Post by: mountaineer on March 21, 2024, 06:29:11 pm

Quote from: Smokin Joe on March 21, 2024, 02:13:05 pm

(What Biden wants here)

Is there really much difference between the rigged elections in the U.S. and the rigged elections in the USSR Russia?