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23 Jan, 16 tweets, 5 min read
#FreeNavalny protests underway all over Russia today.
Here is one brave policeman taking on a dangerous subversive agent.
Putin's hometown of Saint Petersburg. The aprly named Uprising Square.
Tverskaya St. in Moscow.
Citizens of Irkutsk, Siberia chanting, "Putin is a crook"
Saint Petersburg's main street.
Riot police challenge and provoke a crowd of children and teenagers, then bravely charge at them with batons.
Among other things, hope for the future of Russian football springs anew as well.
Never say we aren't willing to watch and learn from America.
Ulan-Ude, the capital of Buryatia, an ethnic Mongol region in the far East.
I cannot stress enough that all of this is happening to protect Putin's feelings, hurt by a man who has exposed his $1 billion Venetian palazzo with $1000 toilet paper holders. And also refused to die when poisoned by a chemical weapon.
"Sergeant Vasilchikov, your orders are to erase these pro-freedom slogans scratched by the subversive agents on the wall frost."
"But, sir, won't it all melt off anyw..."
"Sergeant Vasilchikov, this is for the glory of Russia. Off you go!"
"Yes, sir!"
You may laugh, but this is how the Wehrmacht was stopped on the outskirts of Moscow in 1941.
Bigger that Trump's inaugural crowd.
The town of Gelendzhik, near which Putin's super secret $1 billion palace is located. Navalny's investigation has uncovered the mansion, built with embezzled money, with all the gaudy, ostentatious details of its tasteless, ridiculous luxury.
Putin's Venetian palazzo, built by an Italian architect, features a full-size underground hockey arena, a full-size theater, an entire casino, thousands of acres of vineyards, handmade Italian couches worth more than a Moscow apartment and, famously, $1000 toilet brushes.
There is also a cathedral church, with a camouflage-tiled roof, and a tunnel blasted through a hillside for a wine-tasting-with-a-view room.
In a true supervillain touch, the estate was built, in part, with money meant for purchasing medical equipment for Russian hospitals.

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24 Jan
If you are not one of the 75+ million people who have seen this video on YouTube, here is Navalny's investigation into Putin's ridiculous $1 billion royal palace on the Black Sea, built on taxpayers' money.
You may need to sit down for this.
It's subtitled
Among the highlights:
- A full-size hockey arena built underground
- A full-size luxurious theater
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- A hookah room with a stage for pole dancing
- A tunnel blasted through a hillside for a wine-tasting room with a view
- A private casino
- Thousands of acres of forests and vineyards
- $1000 toilet paper holders and toilet brushes
- A no-fly zone around the compound
The slush fund required to build the Venetian palazzo was started with money meant for purchase of medical equipment for hospitals
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Specifically:
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"What are the charges against him?"
"Why did he return?"...
"Why is Putin afraid of him?"
"Does he pose real danger to Putin?"

OK, let's start with the first one, because it definitely contains bad news.
Yes, Navalny has in the past openly promoted views that can only be described as white nationalist and xenophobic. No doubt here at all
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He has called the other side every name in the book, slandered and ridiculed everyone in the other half of the nation, cursed them for communists and baby-killers, yet he dares to lecture us on civility!
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