Vladimir the poisoner of the underpants: Alexei Navalny ridicules Putin before sentence:
Vladimir the poisoner of the underpants. A widely awaited decision that followed by furious demonstrations outside. The Russian authorities sentenced their most influential critic to nearly three years in a penal colony on Tuesday. Mr Navalny, speaking in the courtroom from behind a glass box, said he punished for surviving an assassination attempt ordered by Vladimir Putin. By “showing and proving” his role in the crime, he had made the Russian president angrier, he said.
However, Mr Navalny mocked his nemesis in a stinging assault as a “small-minded bureaucrat” who only managed to remain where he was by murdering individuals. You’ve learned of the Liberator, Alexander, and Yaroslav the Wise.
Similarly, it took over two hours for Judge Natalya Repnikova to consider a decision that ultimately shocked no one. She sided with prosecutors who had asked the court to turn a landmark suspended sentence of three and a half years into a real prison term when she returned just after 8 pm local time (5 pm GMT). It was shortened to two years and eight months to take account of the time spent under house arrest.
Mr Navalny was planning to return home:
On December 29th, at a time when Mr Navalny was planning to return home, the state prison service first made the allegations. The poisoned opposition leader asked in one of many interventions why authorities only reached him via text message the day before placing him on foreign wanted lists.
Moreover, Mr Navalny, in court, called on that outside to continue resisting. There were several individuals who decide not to “lower their eyes” and would not give their nation over to a group of greedy bureaucrats. A demonstration of “weakness” was the reaction of the Kremlin to “close down half of Moscow” and bring out the men in uniform.
