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by mikeyouse 2115 days ago
> Basically, I don't see why would his "enemies" (i.e. Putin&friends) even care about him.

His constantly embarrassing exposes where he demonstrates how much money they've fleeced from the Russian people don't count? e.g.:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rE1iw4seYt0&list=PLuBu40P6jU...

Or his videos demonstrating widespread voting fraud that's keeping "Putin and Friends" in power?

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Oh, come on. I don't know if you are Russian: if so, I would ask you to honestly think if you believe this is a threat. I personally don't. If you are not, I'd say that it probably would be a notable thing in USA, but Russia has a specific culture in a sense that nothing of this sort is perceived by anybody as a big news. Everyone always assumes that any rich person is a thief and a crook (even if they are not), and that everybody in a government is extremely rich (and a thief, and a crook squared) (even if they are not). Nobody gets surprised by anything of the sort.

I like watching these videos, BTW, because I like how they are made, it's pretty fun. But are they "hurting" anybody? I doubt so.

A single assassination of Navalny gives much more bad publicity, than 100 years of Navalny & ФБК making "Он вам не Димон" kind of movies. If they care about the latter, they surely don't want the former.