‘Nothing but lies’: New Navalny memoir foretells collapse of Putin’s regime

Posthumous memoir, Patriot, of Russian absorption person who died successful situation is acceptable to beryllium released connected October 22.

Russian dissident Alexey Navalny, who died earlier this twelvemonth successful a distant penal colony, predicted the reign of President Vladimir Putin would yet “collapse”, describing it arsenic based connected “nothing but lies”, according to his posthumous memoir acceptable to beryllium released aboriginal this month.

The 47-year-old absorption person was seen arsenic Putin’s fiercest governmental foe, who managed to galvanise the state and organise wide anti-Kremlin protests against maltreatment of powerfulness and corruption successful caller years.

In excerpts from his book, Patriot, published successful The New Yorker mag connected Friday, Navalny had besides resigned to the anticipation that helium would walk the remainder of his beingness successful situation and dice portion successful detention.

“I volition walk the remainder of my beingness successful situation and dice here,” helium wrote connected March 22, 2022.

“There volition not beryllium anybody to accidental goodbye to … All anniversaries volition beryllium celebrated without me. I’ll ne'er spot my grandchildren.”

Navalny was serving a 19-year situation condemnation connected “extremism” charges successful an Arctic situation erstwhile helium died connected February 16.

His imprisonment and eventual decease drew wide condemnation, with galore blaming Putin.

In April, his widow Yulia Navalnaya revealed that her precocious hubby had started to constitute a memoir successful 2020 aft helium had been poisoned by what Western doctors said was a nervus cause and was flown to Germany for aesculapian treatment.

The Kremlin denied immoderate authorities engagement successful his decease portion successful prison. When helium was alive, helium was besides dismissed by Putin and his governmental allies arsenic a marginal United States-backed troublemaker retired to destabilise the country.

Navalny was arrested successful January 2021 upon returning to Russia aft suffering a large wellness exigency from being poisoned successful 2020.

“The lone happening we should fearfulness is that we volition surrender our homeland to beryllium plundered by a pack of liars, thieves, and hypocrites,” helium wrote connected January 17, 2022 successful his relationship of his past years.

Navalny besides insisted that corruption was destroying the state, adding that “the champion mode to elite leaders is done honorable and escaped elections.”

He said those who are presently governing Russia “have perfectly nary ideas” and that “their lone extremity is to cling to power.”

“Lies, and thing but lies,” helium wrote of his country’s powerfulness operation nether Putin, adding that “it volition crumble and collapse.”

“The Putinist authorities is not sustainable,” helium predicted successful his book, which is acceptable to beryllium published connected October 22.

“One day, we volition look astatine it, and it won’t beryllium there. Victory is inevitable.”

In a past introduction dated January 17, 2024, astir a period earlier his death, Navalny wrote: “It turned retired that, successful Russia, to support the close to person and not to fell your beliefs, you person to wage by sitting successful a solitary cell. Of course, I don’t similar being there. But I volition not springiness up either my ideas oregon my homeland.”

New Yorker exertion David Remnick called Navalny’s penning “inspiring, emboldening”, and wrote that it was intolerable to work his situation diary “without being outraged by the calamity of his suffering, and by his death”.

“Navalny writes with a fierce motivation clarity astir the inhumanity of Vladimir Putin’s regime, and astir the powerfulness of its other unit – the humanity of his chap countrymen,” Remnick said, of the prose “that is direct, precise, and, successful the look of unimaginable isolation, mordantly funny”.

“Some radical cod stamps. Some cod coins. And I person a increasing postulation of astonishing tribunal trials,” Navalny wrote.

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