Nawalnys Schlusswort: https://pbs.twimg/media/B5Nn9y3CQAA5xn1.jpg:large Translation: Prosecutors who asked for the Navalnys 8 and 10 years. Left - Rozova, right - Ignatova. Navalnys speech: How many times in his life can a person who has not done anything illegal give his last speech? In the last 18 months, this is my sixth or ninth final speech. It seems as if the last days are beginning. All of you -- judges, prosecutors, plaintiffs -- look at the table when talking to me. You all say, But Alexey Anatolevich, but surely you understand everything.’ I understand everything, I understand that that you will not jump up, nor will the Yves Rocher representative stand up and say, You have convinced me.’ No, I understand that people are constructed differently. No one will tell his family today, ‘I put in jail an obviously innocent person, and now I have to live with that. I understand, that Ill hear, But surely you understand or but why did he go after Putin...’ My words concern those who do bad things or ignore what is going on. My words are so that you admit that you shouldnt tolerate lying about everything. I am told that the interests of Russians in Turkmenistan dont exist, but for the sake of the interests of Russians in Ukraine, a war had to be started. Im told that no one steals at Gazprom. I bring documents, Im told -- that doesnt exist. I say that we are prepared to run in the elections and convince you, we are making a party. And you dont let us into the elections and say, But we won. The more a person contributes to lying, the more lying he encounters. Lying has become the essence of the state. Yesterday, Putin spoke and said, We have no palaces!. But we have been photographing three of them a month! Why put up with this lying? Why look at the table? Life is too short to look at tables. I didnt manage to look around and Ive already turned 40. Soon I will have grandchildren. No sooner will we look around than were in bed, and people are looking at us and saying, Let him free up the living space quicker. We can only be proud of the moments when we can honestly look each other in the eyes, when we are doing something worthy. This is a fairly sick situation. And it is a cunning, sick format that the Kremlin has chosen where it doesnt simply put me in jail but tries to drag in more people: [Co-defendant in previous lumber case Pyotr] Ofitserov, the father of five children -- and his wife -- I have to look in the eyes. I have to admit that: yes, they hook me with this, when they still drag in other innocent people to boot. But even the taking of hostages does not stop me. Life has no point if you put up with lying. I will never agree with the system built in this country. It is constructed so as to rob everyone who is in this room. It is a real junta. I dont regret for a section my actions aimed at the fight with corruption. [My lawyer Vadim] Kobzev told me, Alexey, they will definitely put you in jail, because you get in their way so much that they wont put up with it! He has predicted evil! But you cant live with the thought, oh, theyre going to put me in jail. I realized that. But I dont regret it and will call on people to realize their right to freedom of assembly, among others. And people have the lawful right to rise up against the junta which has grabbed everything. We have allowed them to rob us and turn us into cattle. What have they paid us for this, what have they paid you, who are looking at the table, for this? Do you schools? No. Do you have health care? No. Roads? No. Some kind of salaries for the jury? No, you are being robbed every day. I cant go on tolerating this. I will go on standing as long as is necessary, here, at the cage, or inside it. My brother didnt intend to get involved in politics. there is no need to aggravate this. Taking hostages doesnt stop me, but what do the authorities get out of killing them? I call on absolutely everyone. It may sound naive, and it is common to snicker at this but – ‘Live not by the lie.’ I thank everyone for their support and call on them to live not by the lie. They isolate me, they will jail me, another will come. I didnt do anything that was unique. Live not by the lie was a saying started by the Russian writer Alexander Solzhenitsyn, author of The Gulag Archipelago, August 1914 and other works, as a strategy for living under the Soviet government. https://youtube/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=RvnkmPPiPWo
Posted on: Sun, 21 Dec 2014 11:52:04 +0000
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