Jailed Vladimir Putin critic Alexei Navalny has stated he has been pressured to take heed to the identical speech made by the Russian president for greater than 100 days in a row.
The Russian opposition chief, 47, was instructed by jail officers that the 1 hour 46 minute-long speech was performed exterior his cell every day because it contained « directions on academic work ».
Marking the one hundredth day of getting been performed President Putin‘s speech to the nation from February this yr, Mr Navalny tweeted that he was instructed that he must take heed to the speech for the whole thing of 2023.
« As soon as Putin makes his subsequent annual handle, they’re going to begin enjoying it for us as an alternative, » Mr Navalny stated.
Within the speech, which was delivered to the Federal Meeting in Moscow, President Putin claims that the « particular army operation » – which is what Russia calls the battle in Ukraine – was carried out to « get rid of the risk posed by the neo-Nazi regime ».
He claimed that Russia did « every little thing doable » to resolve disagreements by « peaceable means, » and blamed the West for readying Ukraine for a « large battle » by supplying weapons.
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Mr Navalny is at the moment serving sentences totalling 11 and half years on costs together with fraud.
Final month, he appeared in courtroom confronted with new allegations of making an extremist organisation, for which he could possibly be jailed for as much as 30 years, if discovered responsible.
Since being held in a maximum-security penal colony at Melekhovo, Mr Navalny has made sarcastic calls for to Russian jail directors, which had been subsequently denied.
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The outlandish requests included a pet kangaroo, a therapeutic massage chair, a bottle of moonshine liquor and an award of the best rank in karate for an inmate who « killed a person along with his naked fingers ».
Mr Navalny was first arrested in January 2021 after returning to Russia from Germany, the place he had been recovering from nerve agent poisoning.
He had fallen unwell on a flight to Moscow and was subsequently discovered to have been poisoned with novichok throughout a marketing campaign journey to Siberia.
His marketing campaign organisations had been labelled as « extremist » in Russia and banned.
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