News

Jailed Alexey Navalny posts another thread claiming anti-war support is growing in Russia

Russian opposition politician Alexey Navalny has again called for protests against Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.

Navalny is currently serving a three-and-a-half year sentence for embezzlement and could have his imprisonment extended by up to 15 years.

He has urged his supporters to act through social media from a prison outside of Moscow.

A series of snap polls carried out by the Anti-Corruption Foundation, an organisation founded by Mr Navalny, found that there have been “rapid shifts in the evaluation of the war” among Russian people.

Alexey Navalny wrote: “The share of respondents who view Russia as the aggressor doubled, while the share of those considering Russia a ‘peace-maker’ halved”.

He wrote a thread on Twitter on March 8 detailing how to keep the pressure on Putin’s regime.

Thread

1.

2.

3.

4.

5.

6.

7.

8.

9.

10.

11.

12.

13.

14.

Related: Brexit-voting columnist admits: Assumptions around European solidarity are ‘morally wrong’ following Ukraine conflict

Joe Mellor

Head of Content

Published by