Alexei Navalny had also an extreme Russian nationalist past, where he appeared in right wing rallies ("Russia for the Russians", meaning no minorities) to the point where Amnesty International revoked his "Prisoner of Conscience" status:
Alexei Navalny had also an extreme Russian nationalist past, where he appeared in right wing rallies ("Russia for the Russians", meaning no minorities) to the point where Amnesty International revoked his "Prisoner of Conscience" status:
Unabashed praise of Navalny fits with the general whitewash of any of Putin's opponents, like the "controversial" Azov Battalion led by Andrei Biletsky. "Controversial" is a recent synonym for "neo-Nazi", as in Biletsky's founding speech on the purpose of the Azov Movement "to finish the crusade against the Jewish Untermenschen in Europe".
A free, investigative press would more likely conclude that the Ukraine-Russia War today more closely resembles the Iran-Iraq War of the the 1980s: there are no good guys and most certainly no saints.
Alexei Navalny had also an extreme Russian nationalist past, where he appeared in right wing rallies ("Russia for the Russians", meaning no minorities) to the point where Amnesty International revoked his "Prisoner of Conscience" status:
https://www.npr.org/2021/02/24/970995185/amnesty-rescinds-prisoner-of-conscience-designation-for-russia-activist-navalny
https://uk.news.yahoo.com/alexei-navalnys-far-right-racist-past-back-in-spotlight-after-putin-critics-death-150644657.html
Unabashed praise of Navalny fits with the general whitewash of any of Putin's opponents, like the "controversial" Azov Battalion led by Andrei Biletsky. "Controversial" is a recent synonym for "neo-Nazi", as in Biletsky's founding speech on the purpose of the Azov Movement "to finish the crusade against the Jewish Untermenschen in Europe".
A free, investigative press would more likely conclude that the Ukraine-Russia War today more closely resembles the Iran-Iraq War of the the 1980s: there are no good guys and most certainly no saints.