#Alexei Navalny

[batboyblog]

Things Biden and the Democrats did, this week. #6

Feb 16-23 2024

The EPA announced 5.8 billion dollars in funding upgrade America's water systems. 2.6 billion will go to wastewater and stormwater infrastructure, while the remaining $3.2 billion will go to drinking water infrastructure. $1 billion will go toward the first major effort to remove PFASs, forever chemicals, from American drinking water. The Administration all reiterated its plans to remove all lead pipes from America's drinking water systems, its spent 6 billion on lead pipe replacement so far.

The Department of Education announced the cancellation of $1.2 billion in student loan debt reliving 153,000 borrowers. This is the first debt cancellation through the Saving on a Valuable Education (SAVE) Plan, which erases federal student loan balances for those who originally borrowed $12,000 or less and have been making payments for at least 10 years. Since the Biden Administration's more wide ranging student loan cancellation plan was struck down by the Supreme Court in 2023 the Administration has used a patchwork of different plans and authorities to cancel $138 billion in student debt and relieve nearly 4 million borrowers, so far.

First Lady Jill Biden announced $100 million in federal funding for women’s health research. This is part of the White House Initiative on Women’s Health Research the First Lady launched last year. The First Lady outlined ways women get worse treatment outcomes because common health problems like heart attacks and cancer are often less understood in female patients.

The Biden Administration announced 500 new sanctions against Russian targets in response to the murder of Russian dissident Alexei Navalny. The sanctions will target people involved in Navalny's imprisonment as well as sanctions evaders. President Biden met with Navalny's widow Yulia and their daughter Dasha in San Francisco

The White House and Department of Agriculture announced $700 Million in new investments to benefit people in rural America. The projects will help up to a million people living in 45 states, Puerto Rico, and the Northern Mariana Islands. It includes $51.7 million to expand access to high-speed internet, and $644.2 million to help 158 rural cooperatives and utilities provide clean drinking water and sanitary wastewater systems for 578,000 people in rural areas.

The Department of Commerce signed a deal to provide $1.5 billion in upgrades and expand chip factories in New York and Vermont to boost American semiconductor manufacturing. This is the biggest investment so far under the 2022 CHIPS and Science Act

the Department of Transportation announced $1.25 billion in  funding for local projects that improve roadway safety. This is part of the administration's Safe Streets and Roads for All (SS4A) program launched in 2022. So far SS4A has spent 1.7 billion dollars in 1,000 communities impacting 70% of America's population.

The EPA announced $19 million to help New Jersey buy electric school buses. Together with New Jersey's own $45 million dollar investment the state hopes to replace all its diesel buses over the next three years. The Biden Administration's investment will help electrify 5 school districts in the state. This is part of the The Clean School Bus Program which so far has replaced 2,366 buses at 372 school districts since it was enacted in 2022.

Bonus: NASA in partnership with Intuitive Machines landed a space craft, named Odysseus, on the moon, representing the first time in 50 years America has gone to the moon. NASA is preparing for astronauts to return to the moon by the end of the decade as part of the Artemis program. All under the leadership of NASA Administrator, former Democratic Senator and astronaut Bill Nelson.

#Thank Biden #Joe Biden #student loans #student loan forgiveness #climate change #climate crisis #Russia #Alexei Navalny #women's health #NASA #odysseus #moon landing #good news #Democrats #Politics #us politics

[maaarine]

Navalny (Daniel Roher, 2022)

#navalny #alexei navalny #documentary

[alcestas-sloboda]

#alexei navalny #russian war on ukraine

[warningsine]

The Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny has died in jail, the country’s prison service has said, in what is likely to be seen as a political assassination attributable to Vladimir Putin.

Navalny, 47, one of Putin’s most visible and persistent critics, was being held in a jail about 40 miles north of the Arctic Circle where he had been sentenced to 19 years under a “special regime”. In a video from the prison in January, he had appeared gaunt with his head shaved.

The Kremlin said it had no information on the cause of death.

In early December he had disappeared from a prison in the Vladimir region, where he was serving a 30-year sentence on extremism and fraud charges that he had called political retribution for leading the anti-Kremlin opposition of the 2010s. He did not expect to be released during Putin’s lifetime.

A former nationalist politician, Navalny helped foment the 2011-12 protests in Russia by campaigning against election fraud and government corruption, investigating Putin’s inner circle and sharing the findings in slick videos that garnered hundreds of millions of views.

The high-water mark in his political career came in 2013, when he won 27% of the vote in a Moscow mayoral contest that few believed was free or fair. He remained a thorn in the side of the Kremlin for years, identifying a palace built on the Black Sea for Putin’s personal use, mansions and yachts used by the ex-president Dmitry Medvedev, and a sex worker who linked a top foreign policy official with a well-known oligarch.

In 2020, Navalny fell into a coma after a suspected poisoning using novichok by Russia’s FSB security service and was evacuated to Germany for treatment. He recovered and returned to Russia in January 2021, where he was arrested on a parole violation charge and sentenced to his first of several jail terms that would total more than 30 years behind bars.

Putin has recently launched a presidential campaign for his fifth term in office. He is already the longest-serving Russian leader since Joseph Stalin and could surpass him if he runs again for office in 2030, a possibility since he had the constitutional rules on term limits rewritten in 2020.

#Alexei Navalny #russia #news tag

[iamasaddie]

alexei navalny was killed today. he’s been threatened, poisoned, jailed, tortured, and now he’s been killed. all because he had the bravery to call out the government. all because he cared and loved his country too much to give up. i am heartbroken and devastated. it feels like this endless nightmare is never going to end. i feel trapped, like a noose wrapped around my neck gets tighter and tighter and i can barely stand on my tiptoes.

i still have a flicker of hope that russia will be free one day, but it feels like i will not be able to witness it in my lifetime.

#iamasaddie extra #alexei navalny

[adreciclarte4]

Alexei Navalny by Martin Schoeller

#Martin Schoeller #Alexei Navalny

[liberalsarecool]

Biden has a moral high ground and consistent set of morals to talk about Putin, Navalny, and Russia.

MAGA does not.

MAGA are spineless. MAGA praises Putin as he invades Ukraine and murders his rival, put in a remote prison after a failed poisoning.

You can not imagine a worse person than Putin, but Trump is a close second.

#alexei navalny

[elixir]

Banner facing the Russian embassy in Riga, capital of Latvia.

#photography #riga #latvia #russia #art #putin #vladimir putin #politics #alexei navalny #contemporary art #portrait #resistance #ukraine #ukrart #painting #architecture

[emotionaldisaster909]

Today the body of the only real opposition leader in my country was buried

After his death on February 16th

Exactly a month before the presidential “election”.

After three years in prison camps.

Thousands of people gathered before the funeral ceremony, leaving flowers and messages of gratitude

Thousands of people protested on the streets, stopped by the police from getting closer to the funeral

All stood together in his name,

chanting

“Heroes don’t die!”

“Stop the war!”

“Peace for Ukraine! Freedom for Russia!”

“You wasn’t afraid, we aren’t afraid.”

I was afraid

I am

But seeing the bravery of my people, openly protesting despite all the risks, despite their faces being caught on cameras, despite everything

Makes me hope

And makes me want to spread the word

It often feels just scary and hopeless

Because, what the protests are for? For the goverment to see, to fear, to reconsider their choices

But there has been so many protests

And the goverment

Does not care.

Never did.

And the people brainwashed by the official propaganda will only see and hear what they’re being shown and told on daily basis.

But to all the people who still know what’s black and white.

This today?

Was hope.

He was killed, but not broken.

Even in such tragedy there is light.

And on March 16th the official presidential elections will be held.

But everyone, every single person in this country knows they’re faked.

Have been for years. And years. Even before the constitution was rewritten to coronate one person forever.

It will be faked again.

But today?

Was the truth.

The truth that we aren’t broken.

Before all the power of the corrupted, heartless, hating, greedy and evil

There is good.

There is honesty, bravery, conscience, kindness, understanding

Humanity

And I just want the humanity to know.

I just want the world to see.

We might not have power to do much else.

But if there is good, kind and understanding outside.

Help.

Help the world.

The hate,

The corruption,

The wars must stop.

One day we must win.

#politics #alexei navalny #rip navalny #rest in peace #russia #russia ukraine war #stop the war

[betweenheroesandvillains]

I don't usually like to post about current events/news still in the making, and Navalny's team says they are not yet convinced he really is dead, but I am not one to truly believe in miracles and I worry these news will end up not getting seen by as many people as they should be.

So.

Navalny is apparently dead, and with him one of the last big opposition politicians is gone. This is one of the biggest blows to the Russian opposition in years. Please keep an eye on the news. Don't let Navalny's work be in vain.

#before anyone starts: i know he wasn't a perfect person #but being perfect is not what it is about in relation to russian politics #alexei navalny #news #aleksei navalny #navalny

[illustoryart]

Love is stronger than fear.

Russia will be free.

Alexey Navalny.

#alexei navalny #rip navalny

[rotor25]

#alexei navalny

[dreaminginthedeepsouth]

Alexei Navalny's motto: "I am not afraid, and you shouldn't be afraid either."

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“Everything will be all right. And, even if it won’t be, we’ll have the consolation of having lived honest lives.”

Alexei Navalny (1976-2024)

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They couldn't break him, no matter how hard and how long they tried, and so they killed him.

They still can hear his laughter in their ears.

His posthumous life of a heroic, historic figure has begun and will continue for generations to come.

His dead-eyed murderer's life, on the other hand, has been over from the very first, and although his body and his diseased mind may still be functioning, he is dead to life and despised and wished to be dead by all the decent people in the world. He was born dead, has lived his horrible shameful life in death, and death will be his only legacy.

(Mikhail Iossel)

#R.I.P #hero #fearless #martyred #Alexei Navalny #Putin #Mikhail Iossel #quotes #courage #a free man

[mapsontheweb]

A map of protests in Russia that Alexei Navalny led back in 2017.

#maps #economist #alexei navalny #protests #russia #2017

[makingdonalddrumpfagain]

#alexei navalny #🇷🇺

[deadandcheerful]

Alexei Navalny was killed by Putin.

#russia #alexei navalny #navalny #Youtube