Navalny is a CIA cutout and a catspaw of the West. He wants to further the neoliberal dream that the US started under Yeltsin, and from which Putin had to rescue Russia. Navalny is a racist and a homophobe, but apparently his CIA handlers are OK with that. Navalny graduated from Yale's Orwellian named "World Fellowship Center", which is famous for, among other things, training so-called "color revolutionaries".

Navalny himself is a blogger who never had a real political career, and in fact I don't think he even has a political party affiliation, and yet the West keeps portraying him as "Putin's chief political rival". It's ridiculous.