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Russian Opposition Leader Alexei Navalny Dies In Jail

Via ZeroHedge

Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny died in a maximum-security prison in the country’s far north, the Interfax news service reported Friday, citing the Federal Penitentiary Service.

47 year old Navalny, a major critic of President Vladimir Putin, vanished in December from a prison in the Vladimir region where he was serving a three-decade term for extremism and fraud charges that he had called political payback for his anti-Kremlin stance a decade ago. He had no expectations of getting out of jail as long as Putin was in power.

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The Washington Post Is a Propaganda Organ for War

Guest Post by Paul Craig Roberts

The Washington Post has been long regarded as a CIA asset.  That does not mean it is, but whether it is or isn’t, the Washington Post behaves as one.

Consider its March 26 editorial.  The Washington Post champions Alexei Navalny, “an irrepressible spirit” attempting to rescue Russia from Putin’s corruption and dictatorship, despite being “in Mr. Putin’s crosshairs” (notice “Mr.,” not “President”) and surviving the Russian security service’s attempt to kill him with a deadly nerve agent.

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