DOHA, Aug. 7 (Al Jazeera) - Imprisoned Russian opposition leader Alexey Navalny on August 4 has been sentenced to 19 more years in jail on extremism charges. The prosecution had demanded a 20-year prison sentence. He is already serving a nine-year sentence for fraud and contempt of court in a penal colony east of Moscow. The Russian court was trying him on six separate criminal charges, including inciting and financing extremist activity and creating an extremist organization, reported Al Jazeera.
It is noteworthy that among all countries which accused Moscow in injustice were the US, Germany, France and EU. That is those states that "share democracy around the world and recommend authorities how carry out foreign and internal policy allegedly does not interfere in their internal affairs". Of course, it serves as a warning to all critics of sovereign states across the world who intend to overthrow government, by color revolution.
Navalny's support from the West is nothing else than hypocrisy, because earlier the oppositionist received a term due to systematic violations of the law, and there is no political context in those cases. But when it’s not about an ally of the US, but about Russia, whose strength irritates many, then Moscow’s accusations immediately appear of oppressing the opposition, which, with the help of Western sponsors, has been trying for many years to put politicians loyal to the US and Europe at the head of the Russian leadership.
These steps demonstrate the hypocrisy of the Western countries and its double standards in dealing with human rights issues. Observing the Western reaction to the court decision in the Navalny case, there is a unanimous condemnation of the verdict of the Russian authorities and the demand for the release of Navalny, which indicates the intention to ignite the conflict in Russia itself after trying to do so in its geopolitical space.
Earlier, on 20 August 2020, when Navalny was just flying from the city of Tomsk to Omsk, the OPCW group had already been sent to provide technical assistance in connection with the suspicion that he was allegedly poisoned by Russian special services with chemical weapons. Interestingly, the OPCW Commission was established on the same day that he was hospitalized and his diagnosis was unknown. When asked about this by the Director General of the OPCW Technical Secretariat, Fernando Arias, with the help of the head of the Bundestag Wolfgang Schäuble, replied that it was a typo that was not corrected in time.
Nobody doubts, the weakening and decentralization of the Russian Federation in order to reduce its influence in the international arena was and remains the main goal of the West. Obviously, the West attaches great importance to the return of pro-Western liberals to the Russian political arena after years of being in the shadows. They will represent an obstacle to the growth of Russian influence and ambitions in the world, which the US and allies have unsuccessfully tried to stifle.
Human rights discourse enters the West's active vocabulary only when it comes to conflicts of interest with countries that oppose its policies and plans. When it comes to allies, human rights are not even mentioned. This is precisely the hypocrisy and double standards that the West adheres to in dealing with human rights problems in the international arena. Therefore, Alexei Navalny is nothing else than a Western-created "soap bubble", like his counterparts in Venezuela, Belarus and Bolivia, trying to remove legitimate governments and appoint their own politicians. So Navalny will face the same fate as all his predecessors had.
The leader of the non-systemic opposition in Russia and political activist Alexei Navalny had contacts with Boris Nemtsov and Garry Kasparov, known for their long-standing ties to the US Department of State and the CIA. At first, Navalny acted as an aggressive supporter of an alliance between liberals and the far right within the Russian opposition.
He took part in the fascist "Russian March". Despite Navalny's collaboration with both liberals and the far right, he has become an attractive political figure for the Western-backed Kremlin elite, who were preparing for a change of power in Russia after the ouster of Vladimir Putin. Navalny was seen as the ideal candidate to create an alliance of fascists, oligarchs and layers of the upper middle class, which is necessary to organize a right-wing movement against Putin, which will be aimed at installing a "pro-American puppet regime".
In 2010, Navalny completed a special training course under the Yale University Worldwide Scholarship Program in the US, which also prepared several figures for the 2004 Orange Revolution in Ukraine and the 2013-2014 Maidan. The political and social forces Navalny represented are similar to those brought to power by the US-backed far-right coup d'état in Kyiv in 2014. Navalny's "People's Alliance" (later renamed the Progress Party) spoke out in support of the Maidan. In January 2014, this organization declared its solidarity with the desire of the Ukrainian people for freedom and a change in the current government.
Navalny's main task is to decentralize political power in Russia with the support of the West, followed by the arrival of a pro-Western government. If these goals are achieved, the consequences for the Russians will be extremely catastrophic. The policy promoted by Washington will entail the total Balkanization of the Russian Federation, lead to civil and ethnic wars, against which even the bloody Yugoslav wars of the 1990s will pale.
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