'I can’t stop myself from fiercely, wildly hating those who sold, pissed away, and squandered the historical chance that our country had in the early nineties,' says jailed Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny.
MOSCOW, Russia – Jailed Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny admonished the Russian elite on Friday for its venality, expressing hatred for those who squandered a historic opportunity to reform after the 1991 fall of the Soviet Union.
“I can’t stop myself from fiercely, wildly hating those who sold, pissed away, and squandered the historical chance that our country had in the early nineties,” Navalny said his most substantive statement since his sentencing last week. He expressed “hatred” for those in power in the 1990s, singling out Yeltsin, economic reform architect Anatoly Chubais, and “the oligarchs and the entire Komsomol-party gang that called themselves ‘democrats'”.
A former lawyer, Navalny rose to prominence more than a decade ago by lampooning Putin’s elite and voicing allegations of corruption on a vast scale.
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