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Aides of jailed Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny called Tuesday for new anti-government rallies in Moscow this weekend outside the FSB security agency and Vladimir Putin's presidential administration.
The 44-year-old opposition figure's team posted an event on Facebook calling for his supporters in Moscow to gather at noon (0900 GMT) on Sunday at Lubyanka Square outside the FSB headquarters and Staraya Square, where the presidential administration has its offices.
<p>The team said that protesters would then march through the capital from the two squares, which are about a kilometre (half a mile) apart on a street in central Moscow.</p><p>"The direction of the march will be determined depending on the situation," the organisers wrote.</p><p>Police on Saturday detained nearly 3,900 people -- a record for a single day -- at rallies in more than 100 cities across the country, where demonstrators called for Navalny's release and protested against the government.</p><p>Navalny was detained on January 17 upon his arrival in Moscow from Germany, where he had been recovering following a poisoning attack with a Soviet-era nerve agent.</p><p>Navalny accuses the Federal Security Service (FSB) of carrying out the poisoning on Putin's orders, a claim the Kremlin has repeatedly denied.</p><p>Leonid Volkov, head of Navalny's regional network, told AFP that organisers had decided to gather protesters at the FSB because they are the "poisoners" and the presidential administration because they "make the decisions about whether to jail or release Navalny".</p><p>"So of course we are appealing to them," he said.</p><p>On Tuesday, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov described the demonstrators as "lawbreakers" and rally organisers as "terrorists" in comments to reporters.</p><p>- G7 blasts 'deplorable' detention -</p><p>Volkov earlier called on Russians to rally again to put pressure on the authorities to release Navalny ahead of his scheduled court appearance Tuesday, on charges of breaking the terms of a 2014 suspended sentence.</p><p>Navalny could be jailed for more than three years if the court rules in favour of Russia's prison service, which says Navalny failed to check in with it twice per month while he was in Germany.</p><p>In a joint statement, the foreign ministers of the G7 group of rich nations -- Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the UK and the US -- described Navalny's detention as "deplorable" and called for his "immediate and unconditional release".</p><p>At a press conference at the offices of Navalny's Anti-Corruption Foundation in central Moscow, his associate Lyubov Sobol said people joined last weekend's protests because of "the lawlessness that is happening in our country".</p><p>She predicted that the rallies will continue because "unfortunately there is simply no other instrument for Russians to declare their rights".</p><p>Russian authorities have clamped down on previous large-scale opposition protest movements by launching criminal cases against demonstrators for violence against law enforcement officials.</p><p>On Tuesday, the Investigative Committee, which examines major crimes, said it had opened probes into 20 people for "using violence against government officials" during Saturday's rallies.</p><p>Describing several instances of alleged violence, the committee said in a statement that in Moscow one man "inflicted several blows to the head of a police officer", while another hit an officer with his car.</p><p>Violence against government officials is punishable by five to 10 years in prison depending on the severity of the violence.</p><p>© 2021 AFP</p>
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Capitol Hill reporter calls Trump the 'bad break up' -- and the GOP can't shake their 'toxic ex'
January 26, 2021
Senators were sworn in for the impeachment trial on Tuesday, but MSNBC host Nicolle Wallace said that it has become clear the Republican Party has already been "kidnapped or hijacked by Donald Trump and his kids because Donald Trump can't speak anymore."
Capitol Hill reporter Garrett Haake explained that former President Donald Trump is the ex-boyfriend that the GOP can't shake.
<p>"Well look, I've described it as a bad breakup with someone that can't get over their toxic ex," he said. "You know, they keep checking the former president's social media, they're looking over their shoulders, they're wondering if it's really over this time. And I think that is part of the process here. Sen. Rob Portman (R-OH), interestingly enough, was not one of the five senators who affirmatively said we know this is constitutional, ready to move forward today. If I'm Donald Trump's defense attorney, today's vote in the Senate was about as good as you could hope for."</p><p>He explained that the impeachment managers who come into the Senate would do so with the goal of convincing a large slate of Republicans that he's guilty. </p><p>"I talked to a couple of Republican senators after this vote," Haake said. "So, did other members of our team up here today and even those <a href="https://www.rawstory.com/trump-impeachment-trial-faces-challenge-from-republican-senator-paul/" target="_blank">who voted with Sen. Rand Paul (R-NY) </a>on this point of order, on the idea they shouldn't be doing this, said we know this will be relitigated. We're not sold yet. So, this doesn't slam the door on the impeachment manager's case, but boy, it makes it a lot harder."</p><p>While the impeachment trial is for Trump, Democrats could shift their efforts to trying the impeachment in the court of public opinion and increase pressure on members in their home states, particularly if they are up for reelection in 2022. </p><p>See the discussion below: </p><p><br/></p>
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Marjorie Taylor Greene voiced support for executing Democrats before she went to Congress: report
January 26, 2021
Marjorie Taylor Greene, the QAnon-adjacent GOP congresswoman from Georgia who played a large role in disseminating the rhetoric that sparked the Jan. 6 storming of the Capitol by a mob of Trump supporters, repeatedly signaled support for executing Democratic politicians in 2018 and 2019 before she was elected to Congress, CNN reports.
According to CNN, on a social media post in January 2019 Greene liked a comment that said "a bullet to the head would be quicker" to remove House Speaker Nancy Pelosi. Greene liked comments that advocated for executing FBI agents for being complicit in a "deep state" plot in other posts. In one post, Greene wondered when "we get to hang" Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton.
<p>"Stage is being set. Players are being put in place. We must be patient. This must be done perfectly or liberal judges would let them off," she wrote.</p><p>When CNN asked Greene to comment on her past social media activity, she said that she's not the only one who runs her social media accounts.</p><p>"Over the years, I've had teams of people manage my pages. Many posts have been liked. Many posts have been shared. Some did not represent my views. Especially the ones that CNN is about to spread across the internet," she said.</p>
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