It surely happened on orders from the Kremlin. “Basmannaja justice” is simply a symbol of courts completely dependent on power in Russia. That's where the convictions of Putin's haters were issued. Mikhail Chodorkowski, as well as oppositionists of Alexey Navalny and Vladimir Kara-Murza.
Participation in ‘extremistic organisation’
47-year-old Julia Navalna was accused of participating in an extremist organization, for which she is facing punishment for up to six years in prison. According to the court's press services, “she hid from investigative authorities and is so on the list of wanted persons”.
According to the Crematorium news agency RIA Novosti, “the court has responded to the investigators’ request and has chosen a precautionary measurement in the form of a temporary arrest for 2 months. This time shall be counted from extradition to the territory of the Russian Federation or from detention in the territory of the Federation.’ The details of the arrest warrant are not given ‘for the sake of the regulation of law and state security’. If the widow decides to return to Russia, she will immediately go to a prison cell.
Putin's individual enemy
Alexey Navalny was the most outstanding Russian oppositionist, courageously branding corruption and crimes of the regime. Putin considered him a individual enemy. On February 16, 2024, he died in a Siberian penal colony in which he served a 19-year sentence, issued for various crimes invented by the authorities. Julia Navalna accused Putin of “torturing, starving, cutting off the planet and killing her husband.” Before that, it supported Alexey's actions, but tried to stay out of the way.
After her husband died, she became a politician. She announced that she would proceed her husband's conflict for "a beautiful Russia of the future." She met with many planet statesmen in San Francisco with the president. Joe Biden. On July 1, this year, she became president of the Human Rights Foundation of the United States. She said she would usage this fresh function to fight the government even more decisively. It all led Putin and his activists to a white fever. Already in April, Vice-President of the Russian State Duma Andrei Alszewski stated that Navalna had committed a crime due to the fact that she called for economical sanctions against Russia. He besides called law enforcement. In Putin’s nightmare state, opponents are mostly dead or suffering in prisons. Many have escaped abroad. Julia Nawalna can focus migrants around her, effort to make a “new, beautiful Russia”, an alternate centre of power. The regime's trying to intimidate her, hence the warrant for an eyewitness arrest.
The fearless widow asked her supporters not to focus on the decision of the Moscow court, but on the fight against the Russian despot: “When you compose about it, do not forget, delight compose the most crucial thing: Vladimir Putin is simply a murderer and a war criminal. It belongs in prison and not somewhere in the Hague, in a cozy cell with a TV, but in Russia, in a penal colony, in the same cell measuring 2 by 3 meters in which Alexey was killed."
The oppositionist is presently abroad, most likely in Germany. He knows he should be careful due to the fact that the Putin strategy is ruthless and can send assassins.
