The jailed Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny has written from behind bars to urge western politicians to take meaningful action against global corruption and to impose personal sanctions against oligarchs \u201cin the entourage of Vladimir Putin\u201d.<\/p>\n
Writing in the Guardian before the first anniversary of his poisoning on 20 August last year, Navalny lambasts western leaders for not doing more to tackle what he admits is a \u201ctricky issue\u201d. He says his own survival after being exposed to novichok was only down to incompetence and corruption inside Russia\u2019s FSB spy agency.<\/p>\n
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In typically ironic style, Navalny begins: \u201cExactly one year ago I did not die from poisoning by a chemical weapon, and it would seem that corruption played no small part \u2026 When a nation\u2019s senior management is preoccupied with protection rackets and extortion from businesses, the quality of covert operations inevitably suffers.\u201d<\/p>\n
Navalny argues that western leaders are reluctant to confront the problem of corruption when the person responsible is often standing next to them at a post-summit press conference. The theme needs to be promoted from a \u201csecondary item\u201d to what he calls the \u201cbig agenda\u201d, together with war, migration, poverty and the climate crisis.<\/p>\n
A meeting between world leaders and Putin on the issue would be \u201cawkward\u201d, he adds scathingly, writing: \u201cThe richest man in the world, who has fleeced his own country, is being invited to discuss how to deal with the problem of himself. Very tricky, very awkward.\u201d<\/p>\n
On Monday Navalny dictated the essay \u2013 also published by Le Monde and the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung \u2013 to his lawyers. He has been in jail since flying back to Moscow from Germany, where he spent five months receiving treatment for the effects of novichok poisoning.<\/p>\n
The Russian authorities arrested him immediately on his return. He was accused of breaching conditions of his parole from an earlier criminal case and convicted. After a hunger strike in April during which he was treated in hospital, he is back in a correctional colony, No 3, in the Vladimir region, east of Moscow.<\/p>\n
Navalny\u2019s article is likely to further infuriate the Kremlin. He urges western governments to impose personal sanctions on oligarchs close to Putin. Unless this happens, \u201cany anti-corruption rhetoric from the west will be perceived as game-playing and hot air\u201d, he writes.<\/p>\n
He adds: \u201cThere is nothing more frustrating than reading the latest sanctions list, replete with the names of intelligence service colonels and generals nobody has ever heard of, but meticulously cleared of the people in whose interests these colonels act. The west needs to free itself of a semantic mindset where the label \u2018businessman\u2019 acts as an indulgence, making it very difficult for them to figure on sanctions lists.\u201d<\/p>\n
In a lengthy post, Russia\u2019s foreign ministry has given its own explanation for what happened a year ago when Navalny collapsed onboard a plane returning to Moscow from Siberia. It claims Navalny was not poisoned inside Russia but on the plane that evacuated him in a coma to Berlin.<\/p>\n
It alleges Germany, the US and others were involved in a plot to discredit Russia. On Thursday Leonid Volkov, Navalny\u2019s deputy, dismissed the allegation as nonsense. \u201cThis is a shame for our country. These bastards are doing irreparable damage to the international image of Russia,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
Asked how Navalny was bearing up behind bars, Volkov added: \u201cThe good news is an absence of bad news.\u201d<\/p>\n
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