“His campaign is intended to wound Putin, and Putin has obviously responded by trying to take Navalny out of the equation, at least temporarily for the launch of the campaign, if not in the longer term.”
Alexei Navalny’s anti-Putin campaign could still damage the Kremlin, despite the likelihood that election results will be pre-determined, says Times foreign editor Maxim Tucker.
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