Of Navalny, The Repubblichini, Hyprocrites and Foreign Agents

By Romegas

Yesterday, the Times of Malta told us that the so-called ”Civil society group Repubblika” called on Maltese and Gozitans to take part in a protest it organized in front of the Russian Embassy in Kappara on Monday to pay tribute to the late Alexei Navalny.

The Times of Malta, in its typically ignorant and deceitful manner called Navalny, “Russia’s most prominent opposition leader” (more on that later).

It quoted Repubblika as stating that “Navaly sacrificed his life for the Russian people to acquire freedom and democracy. To silence him, Putin denied him his freedom and now killed him while in prison.”

As the Times states, Navalny died while taking a walk in prison. Could Putin’s government have killed him – certainly it is possible but also highly improbable. Why?

Navalny was never a threat to Putin’s political power – he never breached the 2% threshold even in polls conducted by foreign-funded polling groups such as the Levada polling center. To call him an ‘opposition leader’’ is of course an overstatement designed to deceive Western audiences whose only source of news is the highly corrupt Western mainstream media which includes the Times of Malta.  Navalny was never more than a political nuisance in Russia – comparatively Norman Lowell is more popular here than Navalny was ever in Russia. But his death certainly creates an inconvenience – it comes just before the presidential elections are to be held in Russia and also distracts attention away from the catastrophic fall of the strategic city of Adviika to Russian Forces.

Now for those who are attentive – this follows a very distinctive pattern – whenever the Ukrainians suffer a major setback they try to deflect from their losses by high-profile “stunts”  designed to reorient the attention of Western audiences away from their disasters while in their warped frame of mind also thinking that these stunts will somehow sow psychological fear and discord among Russian citizens.

The pattern is obvious – from the murder of Darya Dugina to the assassination of the patriotic war blogger Vladlen Tatarsky in St. Petersburg (of course the Repubblichini never condemned such actions) or the terrorist attack on the Kerch bridge to the deliberate shelling of citizens in the center of Belgorod on new year’s day (the Repubblichini did not ask for flowers or candles) – the Ukrainians have demonstrated that they not only have the capability of conducting murder in Russia but they always do so when they suffer embarrassing military reversals. The ability of Ukraine to conduct terrorist operations in Russia is not surprising – given the complex relationship between the two countries. Suffice it to say that every third person in Ukraine has relatives or friends in Russia and that the current commander in chief of the Ukrainian Armed Forces Oleksandr Syrsky is actually a Russian and that his parents and siblings still live outside Moscow, with his father being a retired lieutenant colonel of the Russian Armed Forces who has disowned his son for what he believes to be a betrayal of Russia.

Does this mean that it was the Ukrainians or Western intelligence agencies who killed Navalny? – it’s possible but I wouldn’t know and it’s not as if they would tell us.

Perhaps – he really died of natural causes.

What’s unreal though is that hardly an hour had gone by since the Russian authorities announced his death, and with his body not yet cold,  that Western media were already accusing the Russian government of murder.

It seems to me, that whichever way he died, the West was determined to milk it either way.  

We have been left in no doubt that Navalny shared the Repubblichini’s and Europe’s sordid nomenclatura’s values – the Repubblichini remember, told their hangers-on to take flowers and candles, now who was Alexei Navalny anyhow?

Navalny commenced his political career as a member of the Yabloka (apple)  party, from which he split and attempted to make inroads into the Russian Far-Right sphere. The guy was all in favour of the war in Georgia and later the annexation of Crimea. He once famously (or infamously) described immigrants getting into Russia as “cockroaches” that needed to be ‘’squashed’’. But Navalny was always primarily about himself (shared values with the Repubblichini), and when he realized that his political career was getting nowhere, post-2014 he reinvented himself as a stringent Kremlin critic and ‘’anti-corruption blogger’’. It is at this point, that the West – conveniently whitewashing his past started funding his organization. Unfortunately for him – Russia just like the USA, has a law – that states that organizations that receive foreign funding (hello Repubblika) must register themselves as foreign agents. He never did so – and not only was he found to be a foreign agent but he also embezzled these funds to fund his and his wife’s lifestyle. He had a number of suspended sentences and conditions which he wilfully breached and the Russian prosecutors, were left with no choice but to jail him.

Of course, we have been told that the Russian state had already tried to murder Navalny with Novichok poisoning – but only a fool who does not understand the lethality of what even minute levels of a military-grade nerve agent do to entire areas would gullibly believe that he somehow survived it. Furthermore, even if that were the case, why one may ask would Russia, if truly intent on killing him, would it consent to Navalny being flown to Germany and get treated there? Why has Germany never published the results of its diagnosis? Much like it will never publish the results of who really blew up the Nord Stream pipelines – who knows why? Why would Navalny himself decide to go back to Russia if he knew that the state was trying to kill him?

 Very few people in Russia will shed a tear for Navalny’s unfortunate death – by and large he was considered a traitor who sold his country’s interests to the highest bidder –  much like the Repubblichini and their cohorts – for the latter just like Navalny are not really interested in either truth or their country’s best interests – but they like Navalny are ready to act whenever the foreign donors pull the string.

They know who butters their bread.

In Russia, where the rule of law actually exists, Navalny was investigated about his funding and in whose interest he was really acting. Here in Malta when the Commissioner for Voluntary Organisations, Dr. Abela Medici deigned to enquire where Repubblika gets its funds from in the objective pursuit of transparency – the Repubblichini waged war on him, and he was compelled to resign when he found no backing from the Government which appointed him.

It’s a pity – it would have been really quite interesting to see where this clique is getting its funding from. Surely they can’t be living off the two dozen people that turn up at their protests? It would have been eye-opening to see who is really propping up the likes of Manuel Delia. It would have shed enormous light – had we a law like they have in Russia – to see what really binds what at first seem to be disparate groups such the Repubblichini, Moviment Graffiti, Doctors for Choice, Lara Dimitrijevic, the MGRM, Engerer and Metsola and the Times of Malta among others.

It is obvious that the Repubblichini, sprang because someone pulled the string – and thereby parading their foreign agent status and hypocrisy to all.

One does not expect them to organize vigils for Russians killed by the Kiev Regime – they probably are ignorant of them and even if they weren’t, they wouldn’t probably care.

Neither do I expect them to hold vigils with candles and flowers (though it would have proved some consistency to their cause) for all the Ukrainian journalists who have been murdered by the Kiev regime and its neo-nazi paramilitary associates. It would have been more credible of them had they shown the same concern for the rule of law when Zelensky banned all opposition parties – or when he started and still continues to persecute the largest Church in Ukraine. It would have been encouraging had they raised even a murmur of discontent if Zelensky, on account of the war, intends to remain in power even though his own constitution deprives him of the possibility without an election.

It would have done their cause no harm had they denounced with the same zeal the systemic persecution of ethnic Russians in Ukraine which the latter had to endure for the past eight whole years prior to Russia’s intervention. It would have been good of them to decry the likes of Hollande and Merkel, after their public admissions that they had no intention of honoring the Minsk agreements.

But even if that is perhaps a stretch too far, we would perhaps have taken them somewhat more seriously had they for example held vigils for causes more familiar in the West, such as the illegal incarceration and slow murder of Julian Assange – or for Epstein who decided to suicide himself in custody when he could have practically negotiated any plea bargain given what he knew about the Western Elite’s pedophilic tendencies.

Or how about Gonzalo Lira? –  an American citizen critical of the Kiev regime who was tortured and denied all assistance until he died in a Ukrainian prison cell. No flowers or candles from the Repubblichini I am afraid.

Or perhaps protest against Ukrainian kill lists, such as the Myrotvorets website that keeps putting Western dissidents  (whose taxes prop up this insidious regime) putting their names and addresses in a clear attempt to intimidate them for voicing their dissent, and this with total impunity.

The Repubblichini and their friends, do have reason to protest with candles and flowers in front of the Russian Embassy – not in the service of truth – but because they, like Navalny are hired guns – acting for their own mercenary means, undermining their nations’ best interests and totally determined to subvert genuine democracy and the rule of law.

Dante had a special place in hell reserved for them. And with good reason.