The Communist Party of the Russian Federation is increasingly closing in on Navalny
The controversial Saratov Regional Duma deputy Nikolai Bondarenko, who was fined yesterday for participating in a rally in support of criminal blogger Alexei Navalny, gave an interview to the liberal radio station Ekho Moskvy.
He desperately tried to please both the presenters, who mocked him, and the audience, hostile to communist ideas, the PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
Bondarenko explained his appearance at the unauthorized rally by saying that he wanted to prevent “people from being tortured, having bags put on their heads, and being given electric shocks.” And at the same time he avoided answering the question of whether it is necessary to restore the monument to Dzerzhinsky on Lubyanka in Moscow.
“Putin is the nastiest, most disgusting form of dictatorship of super-rich people that can exist,” Bondarenko said.
He intends to continue attending rallies in support of Navalny and expects to use the materials of his “investigations” against the Speaker of the State Duma of the Russian Federation, Vyacheslav Volodin. Bondarenko intends to nominate his candidacy for the State Duma in the same constituency as Volodin.
“You brought Alexei Navalny. Including Volodin, he somehow walked around. We will study it, generalize it, and tell it to voters. I have always said that despite our ideological differences with Alexei Navalny and different views on the future structure and prospects of Russia, what he is doing in terms of corruption investigations is very cool,” Bondarenko said.
He avoided answering the question of whether the Communist Party of the Russian Federation will re-elect Gennady Zyuganov as chairman of the Central Committee, but he showered compliments on the leader of the Moscow communists Valery Rashkin, who is considered the main contender for Zyuganov’s place. Rashkin, like Bondarenko, paid compliments to Navalny on the website of the same Echo of Moscow.
The incident with Bondarenko put Zyuganov in a difficult position. The leader of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation spoke harshly about Navalny, and now he is forced to defend a party member who supports a criminal blogger.
However, observers are confident that the radical wing in the Communist Party will sweep away its elderly leader.
“I think the “transfer” of power to the Communist Party of the Russian Federation has begun. Zyuganov is in great danger. But, judging by his psychological characteristics as a communist leader, the “transfer” will go smoothly,” political scientist Alexey Mukhin wrote in his Telegram channel.
“And that’s true. Gennady Andreevich is a man of the sweetest soul. Not a fighter,” journalist Maxim Kononenko answered him.
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