The cause of death and the fate of the body of Russia’s most famous opposition politician are still shrouded in mystery.
In Russia, the opposition, which has lost its image, is struggling for breath, the president Vladimir Putin in compression.
The situation looks really bad for the opposition, says the professor of political history Juhana Aunesluoma from the University of Helsinki. According to him, Putin’s grip on the country is really tight, and To Alexei Navalny death only underlines this.
– The most visible leader has become a martyr. The reaction of the remaining opposition has been dismayed, sadness is visible, Aunesluoma assessed in the morning on Monday.
The cause of death and the fate of the body of Russia’s most famous opposition politician are still shrouded in mystery three days after the death was announced. Navalny’s relatives have demanded the authorities to hand over the body, but to no avail, said ‘s Moscow correspondent Heikki Heiskanen On Monday morning.
Navalny’s wife Yulia Navalnaya has already said that Putin should have to pay. The Kremlin’s statements have been few and far between, Western countries have mostly been accused of rushing to urgent management decisions.
– Politicians haven’t commented very much here, because there is information that the Kremlin had given such an order that this should not be too much in public and like that, Heiskanen said in the morning.
Prime Minister of Finland Petteri Orpo (co.) previously stated that Russia is responsible for Navalny’s death. Also the president of the republic Sauli Niinistö wrote that Russia bears the responsibility, and the future president of the republic used even harsher language.
Alexander Stubb spoke at the international security conference in München recently about Navalny’s death as a “political murder†. The security researcher who visited in the morning Juha Pyykönen The Security Analysis company’s choice of words is considered strong compared to many sitting heads of state.
– [Sanavalinta] could have been more genuine and definitely suitable for the professor, the role Stubb played in traffic.
Researcher: The magnitude of the backlash is what matters
Experts have described that oxygen has now been taken away from the Russian opposition.
Despite everything, Navalny’s death does not mean the end of the country’s opposition, Professor Aunesluoma believes. In his opinion, the timing of the politician’s death is so special that the country is currently preparing for the presidential elections.
– Such an event galvanizes the opposition to Putin that Russia still has left.
Demonstrations against the Kremlin have been banned in Russia for a long time, and we were reminded of this again this weekend.
When it was reported that Navalny had died on Friday in a Siberian penal colony, a large number of people gathered, among other things, at monuments to political persecutions to lay flowers and light candles. Moni quickly ended up behind bars.
Hundreds of those who participated in the memorial services were sentenced to short prison sentences. Based on the decisions published at the weekend, 154 people have been sentenced in St. Petersburg alone.
The opposition can be suppressed by punishing only up to a certain limit, reminds security researcher Pyykönen.
– Then there will be a backlash. How big a number of people are behind it, that decides the continuation.
With the figurehead gone, Russia’s fragmented opposition has its work cut out for it. Even Pyykönen couldn’t come up with that.