Jailed Kremlin critic 44-year-old Alexi Navalny’s 20-year-old daughter Daria Navalnaya thinks she’s helping her father by complaining about the downfall of democracy in Russia. When did Navalnaya wake up to that realization since there’s been no democracy in Russia during her lifetime. Western media works 24/7 to spring her father from the IK-2 penal colony 100 kilometers [62 miles] east of Moscow, where Russian’s best-known dissident serves out a two-year-eight-month prison sentence for violating terms of his probation. Navalny’s daughter wants to get into the revolutionary act, speaking in New York at U.N. Watch where she received the “Moral Courage” award, keeping her dissident father in the headlines. Navalny claimed he was poisoned with Soviet-era nerve agent Novichok in Aug. 2020, left for dead in Siberia and emergency airlifted to Berlin for life-saving medical treatment.
After four months of recovery from his poisoning, for some unknown reason, Navalny returned to Moscow, hoping for a hero’s welcome but instead was promptly arrested and charged with violating his probation, on what he claims were phony charges. Navalny was warned by 57-year-old former Russian dissident Mikhail Khodorkovsky, once Russia’s richest oligarch, who learned the hard way, after spending eight years in a Siberian prison before exiled to Switxerland in 2013. Navalny didn’t heed the warning and instead martyred himself returning to Russia, daring 68-year-old Russian President Vladimir Putin to challenge him. Convicted on all counts Feb. 1, Navalny’s been at the IK-2 penal colony since March 1. Since then, he’s complained of various medial problems, criticizing prison officials for denying him adequate treatment. Navalny went on a three-week hunger strike that practically killed him.
Navalny and his former loyal staffers like Leonid Volkov has exploited the Western press for almost daily accounts of his treatment in prison, claiming prison authorities have denied him urgent medical care. Now Navalny’s daughter receives the “Moral Courage” award in New York, prompting more global headlines before 78-year-old President Joe Biden meets June 16 with Putin in Geneva, where Navaly could be brought up in discussions. Biden has already signaled he plans to confront Putin on human rights violations, something with which he considers Navalny a victim. If Biden brings up Navalny, the summit will head south quickly, since Putin considers Navalny an internal affair. “For all these years, he [Navalny] has been showing the people in power who are shamelessly abusing that power, that this is not going to work, that we are the majority,” Daria said.
Speaking disparagingly about Putin and the Kremlin is precisely why her father sits in a former Soviet gulag. “We the citizens, will decide who is going to rule our country and for how long,” said Navalnaya, spewing the same kind of pro-Western propaganda that landed her father in such hot water. In case Daria hasn’t checked, she lives in an authoritarian regime called the Russian Federation. They tried democracy in the late 80s early 90s and found that Russia was carved up to multimillionaire oligarchs who exploited most of the country’s resources. It took someone as strong and determined as Putin to end the past oligarch system, returning many of the key industries back to the Kremlin. Navalnaya has been gaslighted by the Western media to think, like her father, that a new Russian revolution is right around the corner. If she doesn’t watch herself, she’ll share a cell with her father.
Western media runs fake-story-after-fake-story about the prospects for democratic revolution in Russia. Daria believes that the vast majority of the Russian people share her father’s revolutionary beliefs, something not supported by Russian or global polling. Like Greta Thunberg, who’s become the media poster-girl for the climate change movement, the Western media would like to exploit Daria as the face of the pro-democracy movement in Russia. For Daria, there’s no light at the end of the tunnel other than a moving train. Navalny’s been arrested because he ran an illegal, clandestine revolutionary group, whose aim was toppling Putin’s government. Her father’s serving time in Russian penal colony because Putin and the Kremlin got wind of his attempts to overthrow the Russian government. Western press likes of exploit teenagers to achieve their political aims.
Western press and associated non-profit organizations have an ax to grind, often exploiting young people to do the bidding of Western political organizations. There’s no doubt that Western governments and the press would lie to see Putin and the Kremlin ousted but they have no power other than stirring the pot. Before Daria winds up charged with various crimes against the state, she should follow closely what happened to 26-year-old Belarus blogger Roman Protasevich, now facing a long prison sentence or possibly the death penalty for subversive activities. Few people pay the ultimate price while the Western press encourages young people to go to the streets and fight for Western political agendas. Navalny has the Western press selling him as political prisoner. But in reality, Navalny fomented revolution in the Russian Federation, an authoritarian regime, and wound up in prison.
