A former career US diplomat who had served as the US ambassador to Bolivia has pleaded guilty to working as an agent of Cuba for more than 40 years.
Victor Manuel Rocha, 73, was charged with secretly passing information to the communist-run Cuban government since 1981 while working for the US State Department.
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This is a most interesting observation. German writer Josef Joffe has noted, “America is dotted with biblical place names like Jerusalem, Shiloh, Zion, Canaan, and Goshen,” but “there is no Shiloh anywhere in Europe.”
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Navalny
Alexie Navalny was a lawyer and a man willing to stand up in opposition to the Putin government. He was buried several days ago.
This is a most interesting observation. German writer Josef Joffe has noted, “America is dotted with biblical place names like Jerusalem, Shiloh, Zion, Canaan, and Goshen,” but “there is no Shiloh anywhere in Europe.”
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Navalny
Alexie Navalny was a lawyer and a man willing to stand up in opposition to the Putin government. He was buried several days ago.
In August 2020, Navalny was hospitalized in Russia in serious condition after being poisoned. (The source of the poison was revealed to be in the hotel water bottle.) He was medically evacuated to Berlin and discharged a month later. The doctors in Germany made an announcement, confirming that Navalny had been poisoned with a cholinesterase inhibitor. Navalny accused Putin of being responsible for his poisoning, and an investigation implicated agents from the Federal Security Service.(FSB)
In January 2021, Navalny returned to Russia and was immediately detained on accusations of violating parole conditions while he was hospitalized in Germany. Following his arrest, mass protests were held across Russia. In February 2021, his suspended sentence was replaced with a prison sentence of over 21⁄2 years' detention, and his organizations were later designated as extremist and liquidated.
In March 2022, Navalny was sentenced to an additional nine years in prison after being found guilty of embezzlement and contempt of court in a new trial described as a sham by Amnesty International, his appeal was rejected and in June, he was transferred to a high-security prison. In August 2023, Navalny was sentenced to an additional 19 years in prison on extremism charges.
In December 2023, Navalny went missing from prison for almost three weeks. He re-emerged in an Arctic Circle corrective colony in the Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug. On 16 February 2024, the Russian prison service reported that Navalny had died at the age of 47.
Why would he go back to Russia after being poisoned there? Why would he stand trial? And who would be brave enough to go to his funeral?
In March 2022, Navalny was sentenced to an additional nine years in prison after being found guilty of embezzlement and contempt of court in a new trial described as a sham by Amnesty International, his appeal was rejected and in June, he was transferred to a high-security prison. In August 2023, Navalny was sentenced to an additional 19 years in prison on extremism charges.
In December 2023, Navalny went missing from prison for almost three weeks. He re-emerged in an Arctic Circle corrective colony in the Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug. On 16 February 2024, the Russian prison service reported that Navalny had died at the age of 47.
Why would he go back to Russia after being poisoned there? Why would he stand trial? And who would be brave enough to go to his funeral?
And what does it say about a political system that would be indifferent to these investigations and demonstrations?
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