Putin’s famous opponent was able to leak it from the Melekhovo prison. He raises 15 points that include the “dismantling” of Putin’s dictatorship. End the war and recognize the 1991 borders between Russia and Ukraine. Replace the presidential model with a parliamentary republic.
Moscow () – A few days after the anniversary of the invasion of Ukraine, opposition leader Aleksej Navalny managed to get a document out of the maximum-security Melekhovo prison in which he sets out his political platform for the reorganization of Russia after the war and the dictatorship. The 15-point program includes recognition of the 1991 borders between Russia and Ukraine, the “dismantling” of Putin’s dictatorship and the transition to a parliamentary republic.
“I have tried to formulate my political vision of the future in an extremely concise way, which I hope will be shared by many, many ordinary people who live in Russia and wish the good of their country.” The first point is a condemnation of the war, which Putin tries to pass off as “popular” but in reality the Russians do not want it, and for this reason he must send criminals and people whom he mobilizes by force to the front.
The imprisoned politician then exposes the political and economic reasons for the war, which are internal to Russia and are intended to reinforce Putin’s power at any cost, obsessed with his historical legacy and being recognized as a “victorious tsar” and “reunifier”. of the territories”. The third point is the condemnation of war crimes, which have made millions of people suffer, followed by the recognition of military defeat, which is the consequence of aggression added to corruption, the ineptitude of generals, economic weakness and the heroic motivation of the Ukrainian resistance struggle.
That is why the fifth point is the return to the internationally recognized post-Soviet borders, although “all the world’s borders are often random, and the source of discontent of various kinds, but war cannot be waged for that reason in the 21st century.” , otherwise the whole world would end up in chaos.” Therefore, we must “leave Ukraine alone and give it a chance to develop according to the will of its people”, putting an end to the aggression.
The seventh point refers to the need to “look for ways to compensate the damage, together with Ukraine, the US, the European Union and Great Britain”. One possibility may be the lifting of sanctions on Russian oil and gas, earmarking a fair share of export proceeds for rebuilding Ukraine. In addition, it will be necessary to open an investigation into war crimes, in collaboration with all international institutions.
In the ninth point, Navalny poses a question: “Should all Russians be attributed imperial consciousness?” The answer is that “this is nonsense, because then we should also accuse the Belarusians of imperial conscience, when they simply have a dictator in power.” In Russia, as in any country that has its historical contradictions, people with delusions of imperialist power are never in the majority, “it is not worth tearing your clothes off and yelling at each other.” These people “must be defeated in the elections, in the same way that the right and the radical left must be defeated in all countries.”
Russia “is a huge country, with a shrinking population and a disappearing province,” and it doesn’t need more land. The legacy of war is fraught with complex and “at first sight insoluble” problems, and you have to decide where you want to go. The twelfth point reiterates the need to compensate Ukraine, “restoring normal relations with the entire civilized world in order to get out of the abyss into which we have plunged.”
He then proposes to establish a parliamentary republic, founded on the alternation of power through honest elections, an independent judiciary, federalism, local self-government, full economic freedom, and social justice.
Navalny concludes the program with the hope that Russia will become “aware of its own history and its own tradition, forming part of Europe and following the same path of development.” We have nothing else, and there is nothing else we need.”
