It looks as if Russian opposition activist Alexei Navalny has been poisoned

[Mrs. Overall]

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Bill Browder
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@Billbrowder
It’s looking more and more like Alexei Navalny, Putin’s most fierce critic has been poisoned with “undefined chemical substances”. Very bad news, if true.

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Axios
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@axios
JUST IN: Russian opposition activist Alexei Navalny's doctor says he is suffering from the effects of "undefined chemical substances" — not an allergic reaction, as has been reported. https://www.axios.com/alexei-navalny-vladimir-putin-allergic-reaction-bce8ccc8-753c-43d4-ac2b-4d677f4679c1.html?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=organic …

[donkeypoofed]

1. That man is a true hero !!

Standing alone against a mob boss like Putie has got to be very hard and would take a tremendous amount of courage!!

God bless Alexei Navalny.

[dalton99a]

2. They don't call him Putin the Poisoner for nothing

[OMGWTF]

23. I call him "Vlad the Poisoner" after Vlad the Impailer

[Pachamama]

27. Vlad der Vergifter

It works well in German

[dalton99a]

42. +1

[mr_lebowski]

3. If determined to be from some nerve agent, I got 100 internets that says Trump refuses to condemn

his Master Vlad ... "he says he had nothing to do with it!"

Hopefully it's just something like a bad acid trip, and he'll be okay in a few days

[BigmanPigman]

16. The moron's response will be, "There are very fine people on both sides" or

"You think our country is so innocent?" I can't wait for Putin to get pissed off at the Racist Rapist.

[DemocracyMouse]

19. Ever wonder why Trumb likes fast food? He thinks he avoids the possibility of poisoning

[BigmanPigman]

20. I read that a couple of years ago

and thought for a nanosecond, "Maybe he is smarter than I give him credit for" since there is that very real possibility. Of course he isn't smart though, just paranoid and rightly so. He and Epstein should be worried about the same outcome. Naturally, I would dance on his grave. Hell, I would have a non-stop 6 month long party!

[ooky]

32. Putin won't do anything to Trump as long as Trump is Putin's giving tree.

[winetourdriver01]

4. Well now

If Vlad the Awful is still poisoning his political opposition, how long, I wonder, before Shitler gets the hint?

[58Sunliner]

6. Sure Vlad will at some point if he can, send over people.

I doubt he would leave it to Dipshit Turd. Would you?

[mgardener]

31. I think the

Putin will use the threat of blackmail, I 'm sure he has so much on Trump. And nast.y stuff too.
To destroy Trumps 's businesses and belittle him "bigly" would be a fate worse then death.

It will be telling to see how Trump responds if the accusation is true.

[58Sunliner]

5. How many people has he murdered?

Ugly psychopath, murdering anyone who opposes him in horrific ways. And Turd just licks his boots with relish.
Those are some very brave people.

[DBoon]

37. and right wing movements across the global celebrate Putin

he has become a hero to them

[SunSeeker]

7. K & R for exposure.

[Tommy_Carcetti]

8. This could turn into a very big story rather soon.

Apparently police are already arresting people outside his hospital right now.

[shanti]

11. I heard that

over 1000 people had been arrested so far.

[world wide wally]

9. I am shocked that Trumps BFF would behave this way.

[HipChick]

10. I'm sure Trump is . getting ready to distance himself from him

any minute now...

[Dennis Donovan]

12. Russian opposition journalist Vladimir Alexeyevich Kara-Murza, Sr is also dead today

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100212326834

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vladimir_Kara-Murza_Sr.
Vladimir Alexeyevich Kara-Murza (Russian: Влади́мир Алексе́евич Кара́-Мурза́; 24 October 1959 – 28 July 2019) was a Russian journalist and TV host.

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Public position
In 2004 he became one of the founders of the opposition Committee 2008. In 2018, he was one of the trustees of Grigory Yavlinsky in the presidential election.

He was one of the critics of the policy of the current authorities and President Vladimir Putin, and in his publications regularly criticized the programs of modern Russian television and their presenters.

The article cited on Wikipedia is in Russian:

https://meduza.io/news/2019/07/28/umer-zhurnalist-vladimir-kara-murza

Translated, it only says:
Journalist Vladimir Kara-Murza died
04:36, July 28, 2019
Source: Vladimir Kara-Murza Jr.
Reliable source
Journalist Vladimir Kara-Murza died on the 60th year of life. This was announced on Twitter by his son Vladimir Kara-Murza Jr.

The causes of death are not called.

[sellitman]

13. Maybe fear of this is why?

Maybe fear of this is why Lindsey Graham and others in his party have become trump's lackey's. Maybe this is why they have done a complete 180?

[smirkymonkey]

34. I think you might be right.

There has to be a reason for Graham's sudden about face and the slavish loyalty of others in the party that you know just hate his guts.

Are they all that susceptible to blackmail or is their an even bigger threat hanging over their heads if they betray him?

[sellitman]

43. And

The fact that the Russians control the justice department too means that their crimes can go completely unpunished.

Pretty effing scary

[bluestarone]

14. I honestly feel the whole tRUMP family

WOULD DO THE SAME, if they could!! ( I'm NOT kidding either)

[liberal N proud]

28. He is salivating over this.

[BamaRefugee]

15. tRump is furiously texting Barr and Bolton as to how he can do the same thing

Dozens and dozens of journalists would be dead here in a week, but tRump would just say he was happy that there are so many new job opportunities for recent journalism graduates, and how it would improve his unemployment numbers.

[EleanorR]

17. Navalny is the man whose work revealed the "Deripaska tapes"

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Yes, this Deripaska, Moscow Mitch's buddy.

Rusal, the aluminum company partially owned by Russian oligarch Oleg Deripaska, announced plans to invest around $200 million to build a new aluminum plant in Kentucky just months after the Trump administration removed it from the U.S. sanctions list.

https://www.newsweek.com/company-russian-oligarch-millions-aluminum-plant-mitch-mcconnell-1397061

[Dennis Donovan]

24. Please make this its own OP

[DBoon]

38. please please

this needs more publicity

[lapfog_1]

39. What happened to the Russian escort who made the recordings on Deripaska's boat

and who was very afraid of being deported from Thailand back to Russia.

When she got to Russia she basically pleaded for her life and promised to renounce the entire story as "fake News"

[Ferrets are Cool]

18. Which is why NO repugs speak ill of putin. nt

They are cowards.

[Initech]

21. Putin is a terrorist.

Really, he and his ilk should be talked about in the same breath as Osama bin Laden and Saddam Hussein. Fuck that guy.

[rufus dog]

30. Did he shoot down airplanes of innocent civilians?

Why yes he did! He is a full fledged, card carrying terrorist.

Another missed clue. The fucking asshole NRA idiots (and if you are in the NRA you are an anti American idiot) were all onboard with Putin after Crimea.

Why, because the ignorant NRA members read the propaganda put out by the NRA.

[mgardener]

33. Trump pals around with terrorists.

He is deplorable.

[Initech]

35. He is absolutely a terrorist.

We should have seen the warning signs with Crimea, Catalonia, the Philippines, Brexit, Trump, Brazil, I could go on and on.

Russia didn't just merely meddle in our election. They've got operatives all around the world and they are hell bent on weakening democracy and ensuring that they are the dominant power throughout the world.

Putin is a James Bond villain. It might take a Bond to stop him.

[DemocracyMouse]

22. Our countries are now joined in corruption, so shouldn't the Dems plan a press conference?

If those protestors are supported more by the majority of Anericans via the House, they have a greater chance of overthrowing Putin. If we're in a political war with Russia's crime lords, the Dems should jump at this opportunity

[paleotn]

25. Vlad being Vlad....

What matters now is what the Russian people do with this. It would be ironic if we started talking about the Russian Summer like we did the Arab Spring. Ironic as hell after all the shit he's pulled if his own country ends up with massive demonstrations and an armed insurrection. Damn scary for the rest of the world too, but karma works that way sometimes. He's not going to get away with the Syrian disaster unscathed.

[katmondoo]

26. Does Trump still want to build a Trump Tower in Moscow ?

[Buckeyeblue]

29. At what point do we re-visit our position on assassinating foreign leaders?

I'm just asking. I'm not necessarily for it. Yet! But it's an idea

[harumph]

36. Yushchenko REDUX

[Duppers]

40. In addition Russian authorities arrested 1,300 protesters

Yesterday.

Russian police arrest more than 1,300 protesters at Moscow rally.
https://www.axios.com/russian-police-arrest-1000-protesters-in-moscow-ea813e05-8fc4-45bf-ac5b-c70d088141e6.html

[lastlib]

41. FUCK YOU, PUTIN! Just--FUCK YOU!

With an old rusty, manure-encrusted, tetanus-infected pitchfork.

AND your henchman in our White House.