#Putin birthday

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Happy Birthday Everyone BBC did not stay down despite getting shot

The Dabi dance reveal remains iconic

[deadpresidents]

A tweet from Ukraine’s national rail service after an explosion severely damaged the Kerch Strait Bridge in occupied Crimea -- Russia’s overland supply link to their war effort against Ukraine and a prized infrastructure project that Vladimir Putin personally celebrated the opening of in 2018 by driving across it in the lead truck in a procession of construction vehicles.

[tuiccim]

It's the 4th of July! Don't forget to reblog all of your Captain America fics/art/etc. to celebrate!

[kneedeepincynade]

Happy birthday to president Vladimir Putin! It is important to remember both the good and bad of this man,what he has done in service to Yletsin will not and cannot be forgiven,but its undeniable that now he is fighting the good fight.

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Today would have been Alexei Anatolyevich Navalny's 48th birthday. Instead, it has been almost four months since he was murdered in a Russian prison on February 16, 2024.

The depression, anger, and heartbreak many of us feel over Navalny's death continues. Nobody can imagine the pain and suffering of Navalny's widow, Yulia Navalnaya, his parents, and his children, who have been cruelly deprived of a loving father. It is an injustice.

The man who ordered the killing, Vladimir Putin, remains in power. The terrorist infrastructure built around totalitarian control over Russian citizens and assassinating dissidents is still in power. The hideous, evil war that was launched to help validate Putin's dictatorship continues.

While not comparing my response to those of Navalny's family and friends, I personally have found it difficult to watch Navalny's investigations, to reread the articles I collected documenting Russia's corruption, or to hear his voice since that Black Friday. He often began his videos in a simple, personable manner: "Hi, it's Navalny." It became a trademark. For many of us, the fact that we won't hear him say that phrase again is deeply painful.

This is without claiming any special connection to the man. He was exceedingly brave, and such people both make us feel inadequate and yet make us better. They make the world better.

Navalny focused on the theft of Putin and his cronies, because it was through theft that the current Russian dictatorship came into being, from Yeltsin to Putin. It was through theft that both Yeltsin and Putin defrauded the Russian election system, violated the Russian Constitution, and evaded justice for their crimes. It was through theft that Yeltsin and Putin were able to launder their brutal foreign wars as campaigns in the interest of national security.

Most importantly, it was through theft that Putin in particular established government departments built for the sole purpose of following, threatening, poisoning, and assassinating Russian dissidents.

The death of Alexei Navalny isn't just painful because an innocent man died. The fact that he had already been targeted for murder and miraculously survived, recovered, then bravely returned to his country to show Putin that he was unafraid of Kremlin terrorism, all of this deepens the pain of hearing that Putin finally got what he desired.

But even worse: Navalny was far from Putin's only victim. Navalny's death was the latest in a line of assassinations and suspicious deaths going back to the 1998 murder of Russian liberal politician Galina Starovoitova in St. Petersburg. And in almost every case, the evidence points to Russia's federal security services, personally overseen by Vladimir Putin.

Navalny's murder just highlighted the impunity of this terrorist system, the impunity of Putin himself. The fact that the Russian dictator could so casually order the taking of human life, causing devastation to many, is sickening and fills me with the deepest fury.

This cannot stand. Putin can never, ever be allowed to carry out such an assassination again.

Russia must face international criminal investigation for all of the major assassinations and suspicious deaths that have taken place since the murder of Starovoitova. Up until today, justice has not been served. And we remain with the same image of mourning widows, fatherless and motherless children, flowers at makeshift graves, and the deepening silence of the majority who are unsurprisingly terrorised into accepting dictatorship.

No more.

Russia's dictatorship must be unacceptable to any civilised person. Putin has no legitimacy as "president". He never did. The entire Russian government and "legal" system are fraudulent, a racket designed by criminals to terrorise and punish the innocent. Foreigners must never forget the long list of Russians (and other nationalities) who faced brutal deaths for speaking freely, for demanding that Russia obeyed its own laws, for investigating crimes committed by the authorities, for demanding an end to mass theft of national resources, for demanding free and fair elections.

Those of us fortunate enough to live in the West, or a country that maintains Western-style freedoms, should recognise that millions of people live under tyranny. Freedom is not a given. Many of the world's nations do not uphold liberty. In many nations, the criminality and state terrorism that killed Navalny are "normal".

By demanding accountability from Russia, we also demand accountability from other tyrants who believe they can murder their own citizens with impunity and terrorise the rest. Russia props up numerous dictatorships, from the Islamic dictatorship in Chechnya under Ramzan Kadyrov, to Kazakhstan, to Bashar al-Assad's Syria, to Ayatollah Khamenei in Iran. Russia itself is a puppet of an even worse dictatorship, that of China, a country that threatens the freedom and sovereignty of its neighbours daily and represses its population.

Meanwhile, Westerners are becoming more and more cowardly about asserting the superiority of Western values and the success of the Western nation state. Malign social and cultural forces constantly demoralise and demonise Western history, failing to note the tyrannical nature of vast parts of the world. These forces ask us to equivocate, to whitewash, to turn a blind eye to, or even sympathise with nations whose standards lag far behind those of the West.

The result of this self-righteous, narcissistic self-hatred is the empowerment of the true tyrants and oppressors in the world. Whenever the West hangs its head in shame over real or perceived sins, dictators such as Putin position themselves as both saviours of lagging Western civilisation and the preferable alternative to said civilisation. And a disturbingly large number of gullible Westerners of any political persuasion, disillusioned with political dysfunction in their own countries, become receptive to foreign liars who hate freedom, the rule of law, and the sanctity of human life.

It's time for the West to rediscover its own greatness and sense of morality by standing up to Russia. Open an international criminal case against the Russian state for systematic assassination of citizens and keep that case open for as long as Putin remains in power. Bombard Putin and his terrorist government with questions about victims of his regime, to let them know that ending the war with Ukraine will not be enough to end these criminal investigations.

Conduct multiple, international investigations into the deaths of Russian dissidents-- the kind of investigation that uncovered the Kremlin's plot to murder Navalny with Novichok. Create public memorials to Russian dissidents across numerous countries to show the Kremlin that those Putin sought to suppress are respected by millions worldwide and their memory will remain, while Putin and his terrorist regime will end up in the same junkyard as Lenin, Stalin, Mao, and other tyrants.

Continue to frustrate and destroy Russia's progress in Ukraine by blocking arms supplies between the Iranian terror state and Russia, as well as increasing sanctions on North Korea and warning China of Western retaliation if it allows Russia to deal with North Korea (because how else did North Korean missiles make it to Ukraine without China's implicit knowledge?).

If organisations such as the United Nations will finally live up to their name, then they should issue permanent resolutions against the Russian terror state and demand answers concerning its assassination program and use of banned chemical weapons. This will further damage Putin's reputation abroad.

A memorial to Navalny in place of the war-mongering Russian diplomatic delegation would be preferable, but we have all seen that the United Nations prefers to commemorate the murderous former Iranian "president" Ebrahim Raisi, who executed 30 000 Iranian dissidents and unleashed a reign of terror against Iran's women between 2022 and 2023.

Is it any wonder that Russia's dictators and terrorists believe they can get away with any crime under the sun?

Don't let it be the case. We demand: no more assassinations of Russian dissidents. Putin's dictatorship must be held to account.

С днем рождения, Алексей Навальный.

Happy Birthday, Alexei Navalny.

[minetteskvareninova]

I normally don’t celebrate horrible people dying, but you know what? Let’s just say this one is in HONOR of Silvio Berlusconi. Yup. The exact honor this dude deserves.

[kyouka-supremacy]

Btw since today is also beloved Meiko's birthday, has anyone any song recommendation featuring her?

[lemonssnickers]

can't believe it's already the third anniversary of me completely missing all the destiel putin election fun because my coworkers were on a mission to get me drunk at my 21st birthday dinner

[jitterbugbear]

i would not wish this flu on my worst enemy

[tomorrowusa]

Volodymyr Zelenskyy b. 25 January 1978 Володимир Зеленський н. 25 січня 1978 року

It seems that President Zelenskyy will have additional reasons to celebrate on Wednesday.

Germany to send Leopard 2 tanks to Ukraine — reports

US finalizing plans to send Abrams tanks to Ukraine, US officials say

[pietroleopoldo]

BIRTH

[tiger-moran]

“Norwegian Nobel Committee head Berit Reiss-Andersen told reporters that all three had made "an outstanding effort to document war crimes, human right abuses and the abuse of power".

Asked whether the committee was sending a signal to Russia's leader on his 70th birthday, she pointed out that the Nobel prize was always awarded "for something and to somebody and not against anyone".”

That’s just a polite way of saying yes isn’t it

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‘Delusional’ Putin showing signs of ‘brain tumour or multiple sclerosis’ as he marks 71st birthday as ‘dead man walking’ | In Trend Today

‘Delusional’ Putin showing signs of ‘brain tumour or multiple sclerosis’ as he marks 71st birthday as ‘dead man walking’ Read Full Text or Full Article on MAG NEWS

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‘Delusional’ Putin showing signs of ‘brain tumour or multiple sclerosis’ as he marks 71st birthday as ‘dead man walking’ | In Trend Today

‘Delusional’ Putin showing signs of ‘brain tumour or multiple sclerosis’ as he marks 71st birthday as ‘dead man walking’ Read Full Text or Full Article on MAG NEWS

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This message is aimed to more than just Putin,is a state sponsored middle finger to the west

The post is machine translated

Translation is at the bottom

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🇨🇳 Nella splendida Guangzhou, nella Provincia del Guangdong, è stato organizzato uno spettacolo di droni per augurare un buon compleanno a al Presidente Vladimir Putin 🇷🇺

😍 生日快乐，普京总统 🥳

😘 Il Guangdong è così bello! Gli Italiani amici della Cina dovrebbero visitarlo! 😍

❤️ Grazie a China Army 💕

🌸 Iscriviti 👉 @collettivoshaoshan 😘

🇨🇳 In the splendid Guangzhou, in Guangdong Province, a drone show was organized to wish President Vladimir Putin a happy birthday 🇷🇺

😍 生日快乐，普京总统 🥳

😘 Guangdong is so beautiful! Italian friends of China should visit it! 😍

❤️ Thanks to China Army 💕

🌸 Subscribe 👉 @collectivoshaoshan 😘