The death of Alexi Navalny has been heavily spotlighted in the media.  Rightly so, in some ways. He was seen – by us, at least – as the last real political opposition to Putin: so his death is significant.   But there’s been a bit of whitewashing, predictably. Since Navalny’s incarceration on trumped up charges (let’s face it – he was a political prisoner), Western political and media discourse has largely painted him as a martyr and as a voice for a liberal, progressive and democratic Russia.   They’d rather forget that he had dalliances with far right ultranationalists or … Continue reading Putin, Russia & the Death of Navalny…