Coincidence or not, Russian dissident Alexei Navalny to be subjected to sham trial tomorrow.

[Tommy Carcetti]

In which almost certainly there will be more years added on to the prison sentence he is currently serving for the crime of, well, not dying.

https://www.rferl.org/a/russia-navalny-new-trial/31693018.html

Navalny To Face Another Trial Inside Penal Colony Next Week

Jailed Russian opposition politician Aleksei Navalny will face a new trial next week inside the penal colony where he is being held, a move that could see as many as 10 more years tacked on to his prison time.

Navalny's press secretary Kira Yarmysh tweeted on February 8 that Moscow's Lefortovo district court's judges will travel to the region of Vladimir, some 200 kilometers east of Moscow, to try the outspoken Kremlin critic in Correctional Colony No. 2 on charges of embezzlement from his now defunct and banned Anti-Corruption Foundation (FBK) and for contempt of a Moscow court.

The court had said earlier that the trial will be held on February 15.

Navalny's lawyer Olga Mikhailova said that the decision to try her client inside the penal colony will "seriously affect" his right to defend himself in court.

Honestly, Putin better tread carefully with this one.

Russian citizens might not put their neck out on the line for Ukraine by itself, but if he keeps poking the bear (pardon the pun) against one of their own, coupled with any massive troop loss and expense in any military campaign in Ukraine, there might be another Russian Revolution of which to speak.

[Budi]

1. They're said to be adding on 15 yrs.

The invasion will provide Putin the media cover for Navalney's sudden death & disapperance.