Not even the assassination of the courageous Russian dissident Aleksey Navalny, who the whole world considers a hero of the fight for freedom and democracy, was enough to make the leader of the League and deputy prime minister lose his habit Matteo Salvini to wink at Putin. The whole world welcomed with horror the revelations from Navalny's wife that her husband was poisoned by Putin's assassins but Salvini pretends to be Pontius Pilate and a one-sided guarantor. “We need to clarify Navalny's death – Salvini outlines with incredible indifference – but the clarity is provided by the doctors, the judges and not by us”. Words that would make sense in a free and democratic state but not in a dictatorship like the Russian one. And in fact his words are music to the ears of the Tsar who, not surprisingly, yesterday had the shamelessness to say: "L'Italy she has always been close to me." After all, remember when in 2014, on Red Square in Moscow, Salvini was gloating in a sweatshirt with Putin's portrait, saying: "I feel better here than in Italy"?
The history of relations between the League, Salvini and Putin is made of unsustainable ambiguity and opacity and to think that a European and Atlanticist country like Italy can afford a pro-Russian deputy prime minister like Salvini is shocking. Can a person like this still remain in Government? It's time for the prime minister Giorgia Meloni, who will find him next to you on stage at the Cagliari election rally today, ask yourself.
