Navalny with Prokhorov in the original photo, top left, with Berezovsky in the doctored image, top right, and with Putin and an alien in pictures posted on his blog.
Putin’s regime must be getting desperate. They made a clumsy attempt to ruin the reputation of Alexei Navalny, the 35 year old blogger and lawyer who is leading Russia’s protest movement.
A recent photograph in a Russian news-sheet turned up last week showing a laughing Navalny meeting Boris Berezovsky, now living in London who was convicted of fraud in absentia in Russia in 2007. It was an attempt to suggest that the opposition is funded by crooked foreigners plotting to overthrow Putin. The picture caption read “Alexei Navalny has never hidden the fact that Boris Berezovsky gives him money for the struggle with Putin."
Navalny picked up the image from fellow bloggers and exposed it online as a pathetic fake. Another example of how Putin will have a tough time playing sneaky tricks when the Internet stands ready to shoot his lies down in flames.
The original picture in fact shows Navalny meeting Mikhail Prokhorov, the Russian billionaire who owns the New Jersey Nets basketball team and is also running for the Russian presidency.
It looks likely that Putin hasn’t had a change of heart about running for President on the 4th March and Navalny has a huge protest planned on the 4th February.
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