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A court in Moscow has issued an arrest warrant for the widow of Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny on charges of extremism, according to state media.

The charges brought against Yulia Navalnaya, who lives outside Russia, in absentia are to do with her alleged "participation in an extremist society", Tass news agency said.

Navalny was Russia's most significant opposition leader of the past decade. He died in February in an Arctic Circle jail. Russian authorities said he died of natural causes - but his widow said Navalny had been "tortured, starved, cut off and killed" by Russia's president Vladimir Putin.

Navalny had been serving 19 years on extremism charges that were widely seen as politically motivated.

Responding to the arrest warrant against her, Yulia Navalnaya posted on X: "When you write about this, please do not forget to write the main thing: Vladimir Putin is a murderer and a war criminal.

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[-] rimu@piefed.social 12 points 3 months ago

The worst is significantly worse than that. Look at history. Rwanda, Cambodia, Sudan, for starters.

And they have nuclear weapons.

[-] daq@lemmy.sdf.org -3 points 3 months ago

Are you seriously comparing tiny, colonial countries to russia? There's nowhere we can really look in history.

Judging by the state of the rest of russia's military, I'm not worrying too much about nukes when the rest of world has modern and tested defense systems.

[-] volvoxvsmarla@lemm.ee 3 points 3 months ago

There are far, far more nukes in the world than defense systems for nuclear missiles. If one person "presses the button", everyone else will, and maybe 1% of all nuclear missiles will be caught.

[-] daq@lemmy.sdf.org -1 points 3 months ago

When russia inevitably starts collapsing from the inside and fracturing into smaller city states (or whatever local tsars decide to call their occupied territories) I'm sure that America and the rest of the advanced militaries will have boots on the ground immediately to secure the nukes.

Either way, not worried.

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