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Who is trying to destabilize Russia? **Blog**

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Right now we got news about an explosion into St. Petersburg Metro Station of Sennaya Square were it seems that at least 10 people have been killed and several dozens are injured.

Same days ago a meager group of protesters apparently on the payroll of Mr. Aleksey Navalny have been under the spotlights and cameras of Western newswires (previously informed).

This occurrence has been very well promoted in the Western media as a very
important event taking place in Russia.

Let's have a look to the life of Mr. Aleksey Navalny.
Who is this new "champion" of "democracy" and Putin's "biggest" :))) "foe"

Aleksey Navalny is a 37-year-old Russian lawyer and a political activist who has gained media popularity, especially in Western media, since Protected content . He is known for publicly criticizing the administration of Vladimir Putin and the level of corruption in the country.

He was also instrumental in organizing numerous sanctioned and unsanctioned protests in the Russian capital, leading to his and his supporters' repeated arrests.

In his earlier political career as an acting Deputy Chief of the Moscow branch of the social-liberal Yabloko party, Navalny made headlines by supporting the ultra-nationalist Protected content March, which Yabloko condemned as a program of "fascist, Nazi, xenophobic manifestations" - a sentiment shared by many other media outlets and NGOs.

In Protected content , Navalny became one of the founders of the Nation nationalist movement. In Protected content , Nation was incorporated into a vaguely structured coalition of far-right groups known collectively as the Russian National Movement. It ceased to exist in Protected content .
From an artilce written by William Engdahl

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Suddenly Western establishment media gets infatuated with Navalny. England's BBC described Navalny as "arguably the only major opposition figure to emerge in Russia in the past five years," and US Time magazine called him "Russia's Erin Brockovich," a curious reference to the Hollywood film starring Julie Roberts as a researcher and legal activist.

However, more relevant is the fact that Navalny went to the elite American East Coast Yale University, also home to the Bush family, where he was a "Yale World Fellow."

The charismatic Navalny however is also or has been on the payroll of Washington's regime-destabilizing National Endowment for Democracy (NED).

According to a posting on Navalny's own blog, LiveJournal, he was supported in Protected content the NED
This led to his exclusion from Yabloko the following year. The unofficial reason for his discharge, however, was his alleged attempt to overthrow the party leadership.

Accuses of embezzlement
The Navalny brothers were accused of stealing more than 50 million roubles from two firms, including an affiliate of the French cosmetics company Yves Rocher, between Protected content 2012.

The Navalny brothers stand accused of having embezzled 55 million rubles ($1.8 million) and illegally laundering money obtained through the transport of Yves Rocher Vostok goods.

In December Protected content , the Investigative Committee described the charges pending against the Navalny brothers as follows: "Oleg and Alexei Navalny embezzled over 55 million rubles from a trade company...

In order to legalize the illegally obtained funds, the Navalny brothers transferred over 19 million rubles ($322, Protected content false pretexts from a fly-by-night company to an account belonging to the Kobyakovo Willow Weaving Factory, which was also founded by the brothers."

Over time, information surfaced that the trade company being referred to is the Russian operation of the French cosmetic giant Yves Rocher.

Investigators found that Alexei Navalny is registered as the founder and the general director of Glavnoye Podpisnoye Agentstvo (Main Subscription Agency), but he has not had anything to do with the company's activity.

While holding a senior position with Russia's Postal Service, Oleg Navalny is accused of having "manipulated" Yves Rocher into entering into a contractual agreement for cargo mail transportation with the Main Subscription Agency.

The enterprise transported mail from August Protected content May Protected content . While the real cost of the transportation amounted to no more than 31 million rubles ($1.02 million), over 55 million rubles were transferred to the agency's account for transportation services allegedly rendered.

Navalny was involved directly in founding a movement funded by the US government and to this day has the very people who funded DA! defending him throughout Western media.

The mention of co-founder Mariya Gaydar is also revealing, as she has long collaborated, and occasionally has been arrested with, Ilya Yashin, yet another leader of a NED-funded Russian "activist" opposition group.

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