Imo European community should be far more choosy and careful while supporting opposition leaders in Russia. Those are not rare occasions at all there when you have to deal with a wolf in sheep’s clothing.
This is just the case with Alexey Navalny who gained high popularity in Russia due to his combat on corruption there. He was later included into the Yale World Fellows Program to train political leaders of international level.
And here some peculiar and worrying traits of his character were revealed. Well, some unflattering accounts of his tutors and some other info referring to him rather negatively appeared on the Yale university site to be later exempted.
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I suspect smb is still supportive of that ardent nationalist prone to dominance at any cost and aggressiveness! They don’t want Navalny to be compromised in any way. IMHO this isn’t prudent and may cause really huge problems in future.