Navalny's investigative breakthrough fails to sway Russian public opinion - New Eastern Europe - A bimonthly news magazine dedicated to Central and Eastern European affairs
Alexei Navalny during a protest march in Moscow. Photo: vasilis asvestas / Shutterstock Late last month, chief Putin critic Aleksei Navalny released a scathing new video in which he posed as a Russian security official and coaxed a Kremlin agent into revealing incriminating details of the August 20th poisoning and attempted assassination. This event left Navalny in a coma. Despite this, a recent poll shows that nearly 50 per cent of Russian citizens believe that the poisoning did not happen at all or was a provocation by Western intelligence services. Such detachment from reality is the resu...
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