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JAILED KREMLIN CRITIC Alexei Navalny’s anti-corruption group on Thursday vowed to continue its fight, hours after a court in Moscow branded it extremist and ordered it to stop working.
“We woke up, smiled with destructive intent and knowing that we are a ‘danger to society’ will continue to fight corruption!” the Anti-Corruption Foundation (FBK) wrote on Twitter in response to the late-night ruling from the Moscow city court.
FBK and Navalny’s network of regional offices received the designation which bans them from operating in Russia after prosecutors said they were plotting an uprising backed by the West.
Navalny’s allies, however, took to social media to brush off the designation and announce they would continue working.
“Woke up an extremist, sat down to work. I don’t feel any difference,” Georgy Alburov, a Navalny aide and key FBK investigator, tweeted.
FBK has published numerous investigations into the wealth of Russia’s elite, usually accompanied by YouTube videos that garner millions of views.
“Today I told my wife that I am now an extremist and can behave badly,” tweeted FBK head Ivan Zhdanov.
The “extremist” label in Russia can mean prison time for members of organisations branded with it.
In 2017, Russia outlawed the Jehovah’s Witnesses religious movement and its members have since faced criminal prosecution with dozens serving jail time.
Ahead of Wednesday’s ruling, Russian lawmakers also passed legislation that bans members and sponsors of “extremist” groups from standing in elections, with parliamentary polls coming up in the autumn.
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So we just roll over and accept generations of debt ?
Best to just take the pain now and get it over with.. quiet inevitable sadly.
A unilateral default = slashing public sector wages and social welfare by a third overnight. There’d be riots on the streets with the likes of Eirigi taking their opportunity as the ‘blue flue’ strikes the Gardai.
I kind of understand why no sensible politician is so quick to jump for that option.
think Ireland should still back out of undeerwriting the banks – yes this would set of another bust , but we are so bust now and for years to come overall it won’t make that much difference. Write off the banks and start again, with a new bank that the citizens can trust, is run transparently and with new employment contracts, no bonuses, limited higher limit earnings etc. – You know like any other job !
Great idea of course but it’ll never happen.. The political leadership ofthis country are so frightened of l appearing to rock the European boat that they’ll do exactly what they are told like good little paddys..as for noonan saying senior bondholders are to receive a haircut this is either an attempt to bluff an interest rate cut from the troika or cynical attempt to garner some positive publicity for the hundred day milestone fg set for themselves..now they wouldn’t do that would they??
The power of money is imense and if the citizens remove thier own personal money – I know businesses can’t do this, but ordinary citizens can take thier money out of the accounts, this would make the government listen to its people – a run on the banks would be benefitical to citizens in closing these still banks and ensuring a new banking systems starts. The solution is not always in the sole hands of the government.
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