Alexei Navalny's apartment seized while he was in a coma
Source: The Age
September 25, 2020 6.46am
Moscow: Russian authorities seized Alexei Navalnys Moscow apartment while the opposition leader was still in a coma, Navalnys spokeswoman Kira Yarmysh said on Thursday, local time, and linked the move to a tycoon with ties to the Kremlin.
Navalny, the most prominent critic of Russian President Vladimir Putin, was discharged this week from a Berlin hospital where he was treated for what German authorities determined was nerve agent poisoning.
The 44-year-old collapsed on a domestic flight in Russia on August 20 and spent nearly three weeks in a coma. Russian bailiffs announced seizing his share in a Moscow apartment a week after he fell ill on August 27, Yarmysh said in a video statement released Thursday.
It means the apartment can't be sold, gifted, or mortgaged. That's when Alexei's bank accounts were frozen, too, Navalny's spokeswoman said.
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C_U_L8R
(44,872 posts)It's unbelievable Republicans want to emulate that. Eisenhower would spit in their faces.
iluvtennis
(19,716 posts)LiberalLovinLug
(14,144 posts)A leader that is charismatic, plus demonizes all minorities, making you, if you are in the majority, assured of your superiority. And use a controlled news media to present the information you want them to. To help paint any opposition as radical and traitorous and you, the leader, as a victim just because you are trying to make ______ great again! And further to dismantle every watch dog institution, kill opposition, or as in Brazil, accuse your opponent of crimes and put them in jail, and appoint your own toadies to head departments.
That eventually, by doing all this, you will get a permanent dictatorship under the cover of a "democracy". Putin may not have won by the margins he boasts, but he has always had very positive poll numbers at home. The GOP sees this could happen here. If not with Trump then some future charismatic opportunist.