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Originally Posted by Catfish
May i add that Navalny is the only challenger, for Putin.
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So the issue is that western media:
1) presents Navalny as a viable challenger when he is not, he has around 2-4 percent trust level (
https://www.levada.ru/2020/07/29/odo...rie-politikam/), then there are name recognition problems, etc.
2) presents him as an honest politician. This is not the case, in addition to embezlement of donations for legal support of protestors (who he incited to protests in a way that lead to crack downs) he came from a background of writing smear pieces for money in the internal political game, he works with the patronage networks.
3) presents him as a politican the West could work this. This is not the case, because he is an ethno-nationalist (though this has been dialled back a bit in the public) authoritarian.
The (2) is the reason why he has been allowed to leave the country despite having the ban to do so issued by the court, normal COVID-19/SARS-2 related limitations on travel.
And this is not the first time either when he was given preferential treatment by the powers that be.
As to why he has been (allegedly) poisoned - this is simple, he has been investigating alleged corruption in the Siberian region and did so covertly.