“We know it’s a murder, otherwise the body would have immediately been returned to the family,” says a geopolitician

Geopolitician Nicolas Tenzer reacts to the death of Alexeï Navalny, in the 19/20 info of Monday February 19. “We know it was murder, otherwise the body would have been immediately returned to the family and an independent investigation would have been authorized”says the one who is a teacher at Sciences Po. The author of Our war, crime and oblivion: for strategic thinking returns to the “terrible treatment” reserved for Russian opponents. “For all the other assassinations committed by the Kremlin, we have never found the sponsors”, he adds. He believes that the Russian authorities “don’t even try to hide anything anymore” taking advantage, according to him, of a “Weak West” who doesn’t respond.

His widow promises to continue her fight

Moreover, “we cannot tolerate the enemy’s propaganda”said Nicolas Tenzer, criticizing the lack of investigations into pro-Russian magazines or writings, produced for “self-interested reasons”. He finally returns to the form that the Russian opposition could take. Yulia Navalnaïa, the widow of Alexeï Navalny, promised in a video published Monday to continue the fight of her deceased husband. For Nicolas Tenzer, the fight from within is very difficult and “it is up to us, in the West, to maintain pressure on Russia for probably decades”. “We cannot imagine today, unfortunately, the street overthrowing Putin”he adds.