MOSCOW — Around this time in 2012, Alexei Navalny represented the most serious threat to the Kremlin in years. His name was thrown around, at home and abroad, as a potential replacement for Vladimir Putin. He stood before crowds of tens of thousands in Moscow, leading chants for the regime’s downfall.
Four winters later, Navalny is a much lonelier man. Most of the other leaders from that brief springtime for Russia’s democracy movement — when outrage over a fraudulent parliamentary election brought masses to the streets of Moscow and St. Petersburg — are either imprisoned, exiled or worse. After his return …read more
Source: European Voice
