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[PhantomX1313]

http://news.sky.com/story/anti-putin-activist-alexei-navalny-sprayed-green-in-attack-10808895

Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny has turned green after an unknown assailant sprayed a liquid onto his face in the street.
The attack reportedly happened as the leading Kremlin critic and anti-corruption campaigner stopped to shake a man's hand in the Siberian city of Barnaul.
The green liquid used in the attack is a common Russian antiseptic, which remains on skin for days but is otherwise harmless.
Mr Navalny appeared to take the attack in his stride, tweeting: "I will be opening a headquarters in Barnaul as if I'm from the film The Mask! Cool. Even my teeth are green!"
The tweet was a reference to the Hollywood film, The Mask, in which Jim Carrey played a superhero who wore a green mask.

Edit:
Best part his tweet showing his supporter.

 

[Stinkles]

Does polonium come in green?

 

[Burt]

This dude's kind of a badass

He'll be dead or in jail soon enough.

 

[Za-Neen-Jya]

I thought the mask in 'The Mask' was brown?

 

[Ogodei]

I would *really* get that stuffed checked by a toxicologist if i were him.

 

[Speevy]

Ewan Mcgregor's evil version.

 

[Lulubop]

Alrighty then

 

[Htown]

I would *really* get that stuffed checked by a toxicologist if i were him.

my first thought

 

[liquidtmd]

I thought the mask in 'The Mask' was brown?

 

[Savitar]

It hasn't killed him?

Slightly surprised.......wait.....slightly.........no, that's not right, completely surprised.

 

[Blade30]

Ewan Mcgregor's evil version.

I see a resemblance to Conan O'Brien instead at least on the first pic.

 

[LakeEarth]

If he isn't careful ... somebody is going to STOP him...

(oh my sides)

 

[NeoRausch]

He's not wrong though. The mask itself is indeed brown.

 

[capitalCORN]

He's not wrong though. The mask itself is indeed brown.

It's wooden. but it has green streaks.
Edit: Nope, it's green

 

[Mivey]

Does polonium come in green?

He's the token "opposition" that he has to keep alive. If he killed him, he would just have to find someone else for the job, and there ain't exactly a long line.

 

[GSG Flash]

Pretty scary, especially considering how Kim Jong Nam was assassinated.

 

[LiK]

Glad he took it in stride. Probably gained more attention and followers that way.

 

[The Albatross]

Glad somebody didn't throw acid in his face,which I wouldn't put past some Pro-Putin goon.

 

[PhantomX1313]

Holy fuck this pic is GOAT, apparently one of his supporters painted green frm his twitter https://mobile.twitter.com/navalny/media/grid?idx=0

 

[Fisty]

S-s-s-s-siberian gulag

 

[NeoRausch]

It's wooden. but it has green streaks.
Edit: Nope, it's green

Dayuuummm!

I'm getting old.

 

[rezuth]

Dayuuummm!

I'm getting old.

To be fair I'm fairly certain it was just regular wooden brown in the cartoon

 

[Blade30]

It's wooden. but it has green streaks.
Edit: Nope, it's green

It's a mixture of both brown and green.

 

[woopWOOP]

To be fair I'm fairly certain it was just regular wooden brown in the cartoon

Yep

Holy fuck this pic is GOAT, apparently one of his supporters painted green frm his twitter https://mobile.twitter.com/navalny/media/grid?idx=0

This guy's cool

 

[Aztechnology]

It hasn't killed him?

Slightly surprised.......wait.....slightly.........no, that's not right, completely surprised.

Yea...

 

[TheRedSnifit]

Two weeks later:

 

[hEist]

This dude's kind of a badass

He'll be dead or in jail soon enough.

yeah, saw the video on youtube 2 weeks ago.

Really impressing this kind of investigative journalism.

 

[Serra]

Anti-Putin campaigner in Russia must be total badass

 

[hydrophilic attack]

that is not even a thinly veiled threat

i wouldn't have taken it so in my stride

then again, i don't have the guts to be a politician in opposition to autocratic regimes like russia's or the usa's

 

[TheRedSnifit]

that is not even a thinly veiled threat

i wouldn't have taken it so in my stride

then again, i don't have the guts to be a politician in opposition to autocratic regimes like russia's or the usa's

Not too surprising. I mean, you take your average Russian, we all know how much guts he's got. Hell, look at all them the Nazis killed off and they still wouldn't quit.