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Putin had Navalny killed to thwart prisoner swap, allies claim (www.theguardian.com)

submitted 9 months ago by MicroWave@lemmy.world to c/worldnews@lemmy.world

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Russian leader accused of ordering Navalny’s death to stop him being exchanged for FSB hitman serving life sentence in Germany

Alexei Navalny’s allies have alleged that Vladimir Putin had the opposition leader killed in jail to sabotage a prisoner swap in which Navalny would have been exchanged for a convicted hitman jailed in Germany.

Maria Pevchikh, a close ally of the opposition leader, said in a video that Navalny and two US nationals were in line to be exchanged for Vadim Krasikov, a Russian FSB security service hitman who is serving a life sentence in Germany for the assassination of a Chechen former separatist in Berlin.

“Navalny should have been free in the next few days because we had secured a decision to exchange him,” Pevchikh said. “I received confirmation that the negotiations were at their final stage on the evening of 15 February.” Navalny was reported dead on 16 February.

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[–] jobby 5 points 9 months ago (25 children)

So I’ve been bombarded on one post by hexbears saying that Navalny was a straight-up fascist who called for Muslim genocide.

What’s the truth about him?

[–] OKRainbowKid@feddit.de 3 points 9 months ago (5 children)

My Lemmy experience got so much better after moving to an instance not federating with hexbear.

[–] jobby 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Are the federation maps?

[–] OKRainbowKid@feddit.de 3 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I'm not sure, but it would definitely be interesting to have this visualized!

[–] jobby 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Ok I see that might be tricky. Are there statements from instances saying they defederated from X, Y and Z?

I mean, how is one supposed to know?

[–] OKRainbowKid@feddit.de 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

There are, see https://feddit.de/instances for example.

[–] jobby 1 points 8 months ago

Wow! Cool. Thank you.

TIL

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