{"id":12857,"date":"2021-02-13T11:16:34","date_gmt":"2021-02-13T19:16:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/?p=12857"},"modified":"2021-07-26T06:04:05","modified_gmt":"2021-07-26T13:04:05","slug":"navalny-proves-too-hot-for-poisoner-putin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/navalny-proves-too-hot-for-poisoner-putin\/","title":{"rendered":"Navalny proves too hot for ‘poisoner Putin’"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

An article by my Hoover colleague Dr. Paul Gregory in The Hill <\/p>\n\n\n\n

On Feb. 2, the Moscow City Court sentenced Russian opposition leader Aleksei Navalny<\/a> to two years and eight months in jail. Noted for its \u201ctelephone justice\u201d (verdict dictated by the Kremlin), the Moscow court\u2019s sentence revealed that Russian President Vladimir Putin<\/a> has concluded that Navalny is too dangerous to remain free. By returning to Moscow after being poisoned and flown to Germany for treatment, Navalny declared he would continue his campaign for a democratic and clean Russia, irrespective of the consequences for him personally. In his statement<\/a> to the court, Navalny declared that, however much Putin “pretends to be a great geo-politician, he\u2019ll go down in history as a poisoner.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Navalny has long been a thorn in the Kremlin\u2019s side with his disclosures of high-level corruption by Putin\u2019s inner circle. The Kremlin\u2019s non-stop anti-Navalny media campaign has described him as corrupt, a foreign agent, a bombastic Russia-hating poseur. Sham court proceedings disqualified him from political office. Putin carefully avoided speaking Navalny\u2019s name, referring to him instead as \u201cthe blogger\u201d or more recently the \u201cBerlin patient.\u201d As a result of this drum beat, Navalny scarcely registered on Russian approval and trust polls in the past, but no longer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Four recent events elevated Navalny from a pesky irritation to a formidable opponent of the Kremlin, who must now be isolated.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The first is the attempted poisoning of Navalny on Aug. 20, widely covered by international press and Russian social media. This was followed by Navalny\u2019s telephone-scamming<\/a> of one of his poisoners into a confession, the recording of which went viral on social media. The Russian people now know that the Kremlin routinely uses political murder to get its way.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Read the full article here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

An article by my Hoover colleague Dr. Paul Gregory in The Hill On Feb. 2, the Moscow City Court sentenced Russian opposition leader Aleksei Navalny to two years and eight months in jail. Noted for its \u201ctelephone justice\u201d (verdict dictated by the Kremlin), the Moscow court\u2019s sentence revealed that Russian President Vladimir Putin has concluded that Navalny is too […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p466Sb-3ln","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":12607,"url":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/dont-expect-europe-to-hold-putin-accountable-in-navalny-poisoning\/","url_meta":{"origin":12857,"position":0},"title":"Don’t expect Europe to hold Putin accountable in Navalny poisoning","author":"victorhanson","date":"September 9, 2020","format":false,"excerpt":"The following article is from my colleague, Paul Roderick Gregory, in The\u00a0Hill Vladimir Putin\u00a0is a notorious risk-taker. 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