Earlier today, Putin issued an executive decree promoting the judge now presiding over the criminal trial that will likely add 13 or so years to Navalny’s sentence. (She will rule on this case before joining the Moscow City Court.) This regime doesn’t hide its corruption anymore.
This discovery was made by @the_ins_ru, one of the boldest investigative outlets operating in Russian. (@bellingcat’s main partner in Russia, run by the brave @Dobrokhotov.) theins.ru/news/249405
Navalny’s researchers in exile also recently acquired the judge’s telephone call records and found that she has been in constant communication with the Kremlin throughout Navalny’s trial. Judge Margarita Kotova and the whole administration should be imprisoned themselves.
Link to the Team Navalny investigation, hosted by @ioannZH:

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Mar 19
Kamran Manafly, a 28-yr-old geography teacher in Moscow, rejected new guidelines on lecturing to his students about the invasion of Ukraine. Then he wrote on Instagram, “I don’t want to be a mirror for state propaganda.” His school promptly fired him. Now he’s fled the country. Image
He told Meduza that the school even called the police on him, when he came to the office the day after his dismissal to collect his things and say goodbye to his students. Later, a security guard even attacked him. All but one of his former colleagues ignored the beating.
The school’s administrators then distributed photos showing Manafly’s vacation in the USA and Europe, claiming that he’s a foreign agent, and they pressured parents to delete posts on social media in his support, threatening actions by children’s services.
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Mar 18
People in Moscow are leaving the pro-war rally at Luzhniki Stadium already. Before the event has even started. (They got their tickets punched, so they can split now.)
Thirty minutes into the event, and here’s the flood of people leaving. I guess they didn’t want to hear @M_Simonyan, the RT propagandist who made one of the opening speeches. t.me/sotavision/374…
The event was very well attended, thanks apparently to massive numbers of state employees being ordered to go. Official figures: 95k in the stadium (which has a capacity of 81k) and 100k hanging around outside. t.me/rian_ru/154339
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Mar 16
Putin is delivering another speech packed with all the familiar paranoia & lies. He says the “special op” is going according to plan. Kyiv wants foreign help to develop nukes. Russia isn’t occupying Ukraine. Moscow needed to go beyond Donbas. Kyiv commits terrorist attacks.
The West is an “empire of lies” (he loves this term) that wants to split Russian society with a “fifth column,” Russians abroad are persecuted, the West wants to dismember Russia. All the old favorites.
He says half the world (ie the developing world) hasn’t joined the U.S.-led sanctions against Russia, and that’s were the planet’s future lies anyway, so screw the West, etc.
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Mar 16
Zelensky addresses the U.S. Congress.
No dubbing:
Just ended. Standing ovation.
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Mar 16
Wow. A couple of days ago, anti-torture activist Sergey Saveliev was arrested for trespassing on the French villa owned by Katerina Tikhonova (allegedly one of Putin’s daughters). The local cops just released him after confirming no property damage. t.me/sotavision/373…
A day or so earlier, a local French activist broke into the villa and found documents from the previous owners, Putin's former son-in-law Kirill Shamalov and billionaire Gennady Timchenko. theins.ru/korrupciya/249…
Video from inside:
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Mar 15
Here’s an excellent primer on Russia’s wartime censorship laws from the SOVA Center for Information and Analysis. I’ll add my own brief summary: a thread on the forms of punishment introduced for different “violations.” 1/9 sova-center.ru/misuse/news/la…
Administrative Code 20.3.3 makes it a misdemeanor to “discredit the use of Russia’s military in operations to defend national interests and maintain peace” and outlaws public incitements to prevent such use of the military. First-time offenses are punishable by fines. 2/9
The second clause of this administrative code makes it an aggravated offense when the first offense is combined with calls for unpermitted protests. 3/9
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