Thread: Алексей Анатольевич Навальный (Blogger Alexei Navalny)

The main cause of that process was to provide Russian TV a reason to say "you see, he is a corruptioner". Just keep in mind that Russian courts are definitely not a proper tool to identify corruption. With no exception, politics or not. The system of "justice" is 100% corrupt. Occasionally it can provide some adequate sentences for violent criminals (if they didn't bother to pay enough) but that is all.

Originally Posted by it-ogo

Just keep in mind that Russian courts are definitely not a proper tool to identify corruption.

Ok since this is a language forum: Just have to laugh because this was such a typically [educated] British way of phrasing it. If you'd said "not quite" or "not necessarily" instead of "definitely", it would have been 100% UK British way of totally axing Russian courts for being extremely corrupt. I.e. the art of understatement, lol.
You say it, but you didn't actually say it... That's an aspect of (UK) English that most non-native speakers never learn, even after decades in Britain. Americans don't really use it either.

Originally Posted by Paul G.

Both things.
In fact, he's a swindler, but it was not proved by the court. I mean, it was not proved properly. So, although he's a little bit roguish, a judge acted in violation of the law.
I guess, if Navalny wanted to be a real activist, he had to pay more attention to his skeletons in the closet. Otherwise your enemies will try to use them against you. Sure thing.

Thanks for the input. It's interesting how different the perspective of "Western" media is vs, what Russians say on MR!

Originally Posted by Hanna

Ok since this is a language forum: Just have to laugh because this was such a typically [educated] British way of phrasing it. If you'd said "not quite" or "not necessarily" instead of "definitely", it would have been 100% UK British way of totally axing Russian courts for being extremely corrupt. I.e. the art of understatement, lol.
You say it, but you didn't actually say it... That's an aspect of (UK) English that most non-native speakers never learn, even after decades in Britain. Americans don't really use it either.

Don't you mean that the art of being direct is not quite a top priority in British tradition?

Originally Posted by it-ogo

Don't you mean that the art of being direct is not quite a top priority in British tradition?

Oh no, youtube quotes don't work anymore.. or is it just me?