“Alexei Navalny’s Death Marks End of Political Dissent in Russia”
Just like Jan 6th.
Anyway, as far as Russia is concerned, the Neocons had a good thing going - they were ‘socializing’ younger Russians with the allure of the West, much as they did during the Soviet times, and they were making progress.
But then the Neocons, led by Victoria Nuland, went for the BIG GRAB, that being Ukraine, and as far as the vast majority of Russians were concerned, they might as well had gone after Moscow. The relatively small number of remaining ‘reformers’ had about as much credibility as the American Nazi Party after Pearl Harbor, and many simply left for Europe (to be treated like crap there, since they are still Ruzzians, but that’s another story).
Navalny himself was an NPC by the time he died.
LOL, the Russian point of view: all our neighbors must prefer the EU to our Russian-BananaStan Economic Group(CIS) because of Nuland/CIA and not that its the much better choice due to higher standard of living.