Navalny is a real-deal racist - his often startlingly vile comments about many of the different ethnicities found in Russia don't get reported in the western media. It's odd that so many in the West who seem to have full-time jobs policing speech and behaviour for anything that can be denounced as 'racist' are unaware of this aspect of the character of 'Putin's main opposition"which is also odd since that role belongs to the Communist Party.

I followed the embezzlement case in some detail and I think it definitely had substance I also think it's probably true that the case might not have been pursued so vigorously by the Russian State if Navalny was not so obviously a western 'asset'.