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Why people are painting their faces green in solidarity with a critic of Putin

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Alexei Navalny is an anti-corruption blogger who over the years became opposition leader and leading critic of Russian President Vladimir Putin. As such, he’s often exposed to intimidation from pro-Kremlin supporters.

However, this time he didn’t expect to be doused with a green antiseptic liquid.

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The incident happened as Navalny was campaigning in the Siberian city of Barnaul. An unknown assailant walked up to him and pretended to shake his hand before flinging the liquid known in Russian as “zelyonka”.

Navalny wrote on Facebook that he feared it was an acid attack. To his relief, the antiseptic remains on skin for days but it’s harmless.

So the campaigner did what politicians do: turn the incident into an opportunity.

I will be opening a headquarters in Barnaul as if I am from the film The Mask! Cool. Even my teeth are green!” he tweeted, in reference to the superhero film featuring Jim Carrey.

“”. . ! pic.twitter.com/3puuPNCuwf

Alexey Navalny (@navalny) March 20, 2017

In another tweet he wrote: “Avatar? Mask? Shrek?”

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Alexey Navalny (@navalny) March 20, 2017

This is a strange presumption on the Kremlin’s part: if they pour zelyonka over me, I will stop campaigning and organising rallies,” he added. Maybe they thought I would stop recording videos with a green face. But Ill do more, because more people will watch.”

After the incident, some Navalny supporters took to Twitter and Instagram to show solidarity with him by painting their faces green with the hashtag # (“Green Navalny”):

@Litvinenko_aa1 ! # #208 @navalny pic.twitter.com/NiXGfQgyti

(@SobolLubov) March 20, 2017

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(@SobolLubov) March 20, 2017

eat more zeleni rebatishki # @navalny pic.twitter.com/XrHrzblHSH

Iskr (@Iskr) March 20, 2017

# #2018 pic.twitter.com/EzfRXAP6nl

(@_udemia) March 20, 2017

# #2018 # @navalny pic.twitter.com/OC08AMUGu1

(@Ksenia_Gusinsky) March 20, 2017

, ! ! # pic.twitter.com/7mWTAyWUCb

(@El_Dmi) March 20, 2017

, , . # #2018 # #

A post shared by (@nancy_spirina) on Mar 20, 2017 at 11:13am PDT

. # pic.twitter.com/I2uqJdYpQK

(@_sergey_boyko) March 20, 2017

@vika_kisimiaka ” !”)) , . # – -)) #2018 # # # #tomskgram

A post shared by (@den_kitaro) on Mar 20, 2017 at 10:40am PDT

, . ##2018# pic.twitter.com/KNZKbAKA7b

Dmitry Sokolov (@sokolovdn) March 20, 2017

! #

A post shared by Alex Tokarev (@alex.tokarew) on Mar 20, 2017 at 11:42am PDT

One blogger, Nikolai Danilov, was detained after he stood on Red Square with his face and hands painted green:

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A post shared by Alexey Yushenkov (@yushenkov) on Mar 20, 2017 at 8:50am PDT

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Read more: http://mashable.com/2017/03/21/alexei-navalny-green-liquid-russia-the-mask/

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