Thread: The Times 100 of 2012: #98 Aleksey Navalny

This world is definitely going round the bend.... Among the people expected to become the most influential in 2012, the Times’s editors see Russian blogger Navalny.... Know actually little about oppositional and political activity of this Russian, but have heard much about his open extremist nationalistic views. Looks nice enough: Dickens, Merkel, Obama, Cameron and... ordinary Russian nationalist, out-and-out anti-Semite. Wonder how’ll they like the list in Israel, where Navalny still supposed to be one of the main anti-Semitism ideologists and even frequently is compared to Nazi Germany’s Hitler himself.

See the full list of The Times 2012 selections HERE

Originally Posted by Mouly

This world is definitely going round the bend.... Among the people expected to become the most influential in 2012, the Times’s editors see Russian blogger Navalny.... Know actually little about oppositional and political activity of this Russian, but have heard much about his open extremist nationalistic views. Looks nice enough: Dickens, Merkel, Obama, Cameron and... ordinary Russian nationalist, out-and-out anti-Semite. Wonder how’ll they like the list in Israel, where Navalny still supposed to be one of the main anti-Semitism ideologists and even frequently is compared to Nazi Germany’s Hitler himself.

It's the first time I hear about Navalny being a nationalist.
He is viewed as a liberal in Russia.

The reason he's on the list - he's pro-western and pro-US.