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Navalny

Nadin Brzezinski
5 min readOct 6, 2022

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Evgeny Feldman — Own work

Alexey Navalny has been a thorn in the side of the state for years. He is the symbol of the remaining opposition. The state has tried to kill him. Now he is in the Gulag. So this is significant:

Today it was announced the resumption of the work of Navalny’s headquarters — now in an underground version. Strategically, this event can be assessed from two points of view. On the one hand, this is another powerful bell (signal)

- everything is bursting at the seams, the situation is getting out of control of the authorities. In itself, the resumption of the activities of the headquarters also contributes to the brewing storm, already rocking the Kremlin’s boat stronger and stronger, carrying it away from the safe shore.

On the other hand, this initiative itself poses a certain danger. The organization has been declared extremist, but openly declares the formation of an underground, while collecting application forms for entry. Although they promise that your data will not fall into the hands of the Chekists, the undertaking is still risky.

Moreover, they already had precedents with drains of databases of participants. And it is not clear whether the organizers have an understanding of how to conduct underground activities. The situation has changed a lot since they were active, and in the current conditions they have no work experience yet.

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Nadin Brzezinski
Nadin Brzezinski

Written by Nadin Brzezinski

Historian by training. Former day to day reporter. Sometimes a geek who enjoys a good miniatures game. You can find me at CounterSocial, Mastodon and rarely FB

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