The death of Russian opposition leader Oleksiy Navalny and the barring of Boris Nadezhdin from participating in the presidential elections are unrelated. Meanwhile, these two events are related to each other as certain new data that allow us to better understand the peculiarities of the functioning of the Putin regime.

Why did Navalny's death happen on February 16?

The Federal Penitentiary Service reported the death of a Russian oppositionist in correctional colony No. 3 of the Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous District of the Russian Federation due to deterioration of health.

Many government and political figures expressed their indignation, blaming the Russian authorities for the death of Navalny.

However, there are reasons to assume that it is not about any destruction of the Russian opposition by the generalized Putin regime, but about an order from V. Putin personally to kill Navalny on February 16 - on the occasion of the start of the Munich Security Conference.

In an article published earlier, the interview of the Russian president with the American journalist Carlson was called a manifesto of the tsar, who has partially gone mad in the literal sense. That is, he has signs of a progressive mental disorder. And the death of O. Navalny may be a confirmation of this assumption.

Because the death of this Russian oppositionist on February 16 looks like a sadistic «gift» of the deranged Kremlin dictator of the West to show his contempt and strength. The essence of Putin's message: I will do whatever I want, regardless of isolation and sanctions. This is what despots did in ancient and medieval times, sending severed heads of important people to their enemies. It seems that Putin's madness has already reached this limit. The life of one person is nothing to him, because he throws millions to die in the war in Ukraine and in other parts of the world.

Navalny no longer caused any inconvenience for the election of the Kremlin announcer for a new term.

A symbol of destroyed dreams and hopes

In connection with the Russian presidential elections, it is worth mentioning Boris Nadezhdin, who was not allowed by the Russian Central Election Commission to participate in the elections as a candidate.

Many wondered why the Putin regime allowed Nadezhdin to express very oppositional anti-war slogans and ideas for some time. Some even thought that there is probably some hope that an opposition candidate will participate in the elections. Although, it looked strange against the background of the fact that the regime disperses even the actions of laying flowers at the memorials of the fallen soldiers of the Great Patriotic War.

Also, B. Nadezhdin could not pose any significant competition to Putin in the elections, because in Russia all links of the election process are controlled by the authorities, most mass media work for the authorities, and the majority of voters vote for the current president.

There is nothing contradictory and strange in the story with Nadezhdin, if we consider it as a manifestation of the game of the mad Moscow tsar. Because there is a saying «Hope dies last». Russian «hope» - Ukrainian «hope».

It seems that Putin played cynically, giving a crumb of hope for change to someone from the opposition, and then killed that hope by not allowing Nadezhdin to participate in the elections. This is another performance of the deranged Kremlin dictator - a performance with elements of the pleasure that the sadistic despot derives from torturing his opponents.

Volodymyr Volia - strategic research coordinator of the Intermarium Institute