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by Andrew_nenakhov 1715 days ago
Not true. His 'hate' against ethnic minorities is a gross overstatement. "Stop feeding Caucasus" means stop giving money to murderous criminals who rule in the region, not make people of the Caucasus starve, and his suggestions to restrict travel from former USSR countries are not unlike existing EU or US restrictions of travel applied to Russian citizens.

Regarding hate against sexual minorities, in the more than a decade of following Navalny on social media, I have never seen him exhibiting any hate or resentment towards sexual minorities, so I think that this accusation is an outright lie.

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A note to the readers from the US: "Caucasian" in Russian has the opposite meaning, so some Russians may collide the "Stop feeding Caucasus" slogan with nationalistic statements, but it is more about rule of law and economics.

The status quo is that the Russian state pays loads of money to little czars in Caucasus to keep them comfy instead of fighting them in civil wars.

Strawman. I wasn't talking about his populist proposals.

If you followed him more than 10 years, you would be aware of his extremely hateful comments against all kids of minorities in his blog.

For example, his proposals to kick all "rats" (Georgians) out of Russia and bomb them[1]. That's just one example out of many.

[1] https://navalny.livejournal.com/274456.html

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You continuously claim Navalny to have hateful views on sexual minorities or jews, but you fail to provide any sources.

As for georgian 'rats'. 1. This was a statement done during an actual WAR with georgia, with extremely distorted information field and difficult to judge situation. I myself was very anti-georgian at that moment, but my views have changed since then. Navalny has also retracted his statement on the matter and apologized for it a long time ago, but propagandists like you endlessly cite it without any context or follow ups.