{"id":16346,"date":"2024-03-03T00:47:32","date_gmt":"2024-03-03T00:47:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/2024\/03\/03\/navalny-will-be-back-but-only-after-putins-rule-is-over\/"},"modified":"2024-03-03T00:47:32","modified_gmt":"2024-03-03T00:47:32","slug":"navalny-will-be-back-but-only-after-putins-rule-is-over","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/2024\/03\/03\/navalny-will-be-back-but-only-after-putins-rule-is-over\/","title":{"rendered":"Navalny will be back, but only after Putin\u2019s rule is over"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The images were stirring: Alexey Navalny\u2019s mourners lining up\u00a0on Friday around the Church of the Icon of the Mother of God in Moscow\u2019s Maryino district, risking arrest to pay final respects to a man they call their hero. <\/p>\n

Each red carnation clutched by a supporter of\u00a0the Russian dissident can be seen as a small act of resistance in a country where the state has cleared the landscape of all political competition. And one of the chants of Navalny\u2019s supporters at the funeral \u2013\u00a0ne prostim <\/em>(we won\u2019t forgive) \u2013 seemed directed at Russian President Vladimir Putin. <\/p>\n

But the fact that Navalny\u2019s funeral went ahead, after two cruel weeks of bureaucratic delay and official obfuscation,\u00a0is perhaps a sign of the Kremlin\u2019s confidence. Its crackdown on dissent is so complete, and genuine political opposition so marginalized, that the event was allowed to\u00a0take place. The funeral of Navalny was the funeral of the Russian opposition movement \u2013 for now. <\/p>\n

To be sure, a heavy contingent of police\u00a0was\u00a0on hand to make sure\u00a0the event did not\u00a0veer outside the boundaries of acceptable protest. Independent monitoring group OVD-Info reported that 91 people were arrested in 19 cities around Russia on the day of Navalny\u2019s funeral, far fewer than the hundreds arrested on the day of Russia\u2019s full-scale invasion of Ukraine. <\/p>\n

The full-scale invasion of Ukraine raised the stakes for public protest in Russia, introducing strict new criminal penalties for defaming the country\u2019s military. Hundreds of thousands of Russians went into exile, many of whom were part of Navalny\u2019s\u00a0constituency. The person who has assumed the mantle of Navalny\u2019s charismatic leadership \u2013 his widow, Yulia Navalnaya \u2013 is out of the country, and does not immediately present a direct political threat to Putin, who is poised to sail to re-election in two weeks. That all makes Friday\u2019s turnout more remarkable, but what future is there for Navalny\u2019s form of opposition? <\/p>\n

Navalny returned to Russia following his recovery from nerve-agent poisoning in 2021 precisely because he wanted to remain an active player in politics. And his form of digitally engaged activism continued, even as state prosecutors piled on charges against him. <\/p>\n

For that, he paid the\u00a0price: Whatever the ultimate cause\u00a0of his death in prison, Navalny\u2019s term in a remote\u00a0penal\u00a0colony north of the Arctic Circle was designed to break him physically and psychologically. <\/p>\n

Behind bars,\u00a0Navalny had remained a potent symbol of resistance, sending messages that poked fun at the prison administration. Even in death, his sense of humor and pop-culture savvy surfaced. Kira Yarmysh, his spokeswoman, noted that music from an Arnold Schwarzenegger blockbuster was played as his body was laid to rest. <\/p>\n

\u201cAlexey considered Terminator 2 the best film on earth,\u201d she wrote. \u201cMusic from the final scene was played at his funeral.\u201d <\/p>\n

To quote the Terminator,\u00a0Navalny will be back. <\/p>\n

\u201cSchoolkids hear about heroes in schools but here we have a true hero\u00a0which we were happy to work with through the years,\u201d his longtime aide Maria Pevchikh said in a live YouTube broadcast on Friday.\u00a0\u201cNavalny will become a giant figure in Russian history,\u201d <\/p>\n

But while Putin is in power, the anti-corruption activist\u2019s name will not be seen on streets and squares.\u00a0So how long Russian schoolchildren will wait for him to enter their history books is a very open question. <\/p>\n\n

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