“There is no such thing as a greater menace to Russia than Putin’s regime,” Alexei Navalny stated.
Moscow:
The largest menace to Russia is the regime of President Vladimir Putin, jailed opposition chief Alexei Navalny stated on Tuesday, in his first feedback since an aborted Wagner mutiny.
“There is no such thing as a greater menace to Russia than Putin’s regime,” Navalny wrote on social media. “Putin’s regime is so harmful to the nation that even its inevitable demise will create the specter of civil warfare,” he wrote.
“The truth that the warfare began by Putin might destroy and break up Russia is not a dramatic assertion.”
The riot by Wagner mercenary group chief Yevgeny Prigozhin sparked Russia’s largest political disaster in many years.
Prigozhin, embroiled in a long-running feud with Russia’s army management over the warfare, ordered his forces to march on Moscow, earlier than abruptly telling them to show round.
“It isn’t the West or the opposition that shot down Russian helicopters over Russia… that put Russia on the brink of a civil warfare,” Navalny stated.
“Putin did this himself. It’s he who personally pardoned all of those convicts who have been headed to kill (Defence Minister Sergei) Shoigu and whoever else they wished to kill.”
“Immediately we perceive clearly: the band of Putin supporters are prepared to begin a warfare towards anybody at any second. That is why it is extraordinarily necessary to keep in mind that any post-Putin transition should embrace free elections.”
“It isn’t democracy, human rights and parliament who weaken authorities and result in turmoil. It is dictators and the usurpation of energy that result in dysfunction, weak authorities and chaos. All the time.”
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