Alexei Navalny, the leading Russian opposition politician, has reportedly disappeared from the penal colony where Putin’s regime had imprisoned him on made-up charges. www.washingtonpost.com/…His lawyers cannot contact him, and the penal colony administrators claim that he is not on the list of prisoners. He had been supposed to speak (by Zoom) at yet another kangaroo trial on December 11, no show. In the recent weeks, Navalny formulated a strategy for the 2024 election (planned around the inevitable vote-rigging) — maximize the protest vote, bring up the “anybody but Putin” percentage as high as possible, depending on the region. And, as a certain Soviet leader supposedly used to say, “You have a man, you have a problem.

Source: Washington Post December 11, 2023 19:27 UTC