Alexey Navalny, who returned from his "healing" voyage to Germany, was escorted to the pre-trial detention center right from the plane. However, he is not facing charges on the counts that he would like to.
Despite all the anti-Russian rhetoric and insults against the Russian president, which Navalny was happy to produce in interviews to the Western press, he will be held accountable before the Russian law for criminal, rather than political cases.
Does it mean that Navalny is useless as a candidate for political leadership?
Daria Mitina, a Pravda.Ru observer, believes that the game, which Navalny is playing, has taken a different turn.