• mozz
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    410 months ago

    15 years ago

    A spokesman for the human rights organisation in Moscow told the BBC that he believed the wave of requests to “de-list” Navalny was part of an “orchestrated campaign” to discredit Vladimir Putin’s most vocal critic

    “We had too many requests; we couldn’t ignore them,” spokesman Alexander Artemev told the BBC

    quoted a Twitter thread by Katya Kazbek, a freelance columnist published by the pro-Kremlin channel RT amongst others

    Ms Kazbek, a pseudonym, describes herself online as a “feminist, LGBT researcher, citizen of the world”, but

    other English-language Twitter accounts have regularly

    the move has already been hailed by RT editor Margarita Simonyan on Twitter, who noted the success of “our columnist” Katya Kazbek

    Nelson Mandela had also been stripped of the status in the 1960s

    • @TokenBoomer@lemmy.world
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      -310 months ago

      That’s fair. Many of us have said controversial things in our past, and people change. He can be held up as a symbol for Russian liberation. But, to invite his wife to another country for its annual gathering is to invite those past transgressions and criticisms. It’s problematic.