- Alexei Navalny's political activities were funded by the US government through the National Endowment for Democracy (NED) as part of an effort to repeat US-backed 2014 Ukraine regime change inside Russia itself;

- The Western media had previously (and reluctantly) revealed Navalny as far-right, racist, and xenophobic despite efforts to pass him off as a progressive pro-democracy activist;

- US government-funded polling agencies consistently found Alexei Navalny extremely unpopular in Russia with single digit approval ratings;

- After an alleged 2020 "Novichok" poisoning, Navalny's popularity "surged" to 20% as the Western media accused Moscow of being behind the incident;

- The US is now exploiting the death of Navalny to advance its anti-Russia policy while the Western media collective omits all relevant context regarding Navalny's background and US funding;

References:

NYT - Navalny’s Death Raises Tensions Between U.S. and Russia (February 16, 2024):

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/16/world/europe/biden-putin-navalny.html

CNN - Putin saw an existential threat in Navalny, the opposition leader whose name he dared not mention (February 16, 2024):

https://edition.cnn.com/2024/02/17/europe/putin-navalny-existential-threat-analysis-intl/index.html

Al Jazeera - Alexey Navalny: An archenemy Putin wouldn’t name and Kremlin couldn’t scare (February 16, 2024):

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/2/16/obit-navalny-putins-archenemy-and-anti-corruption-champion

Reuters - Putin critic Navalny's approval rating surges in wake of poisoning (October 2020):

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-russia-politics-navalny-idUSKBN26N1Z9/

The New Atlas - CNN + Bellingcat's Latest Russian Novichok Lies | 12/16/2020 Review (December 2020):

https://youtu.be/Ma4wwo8WQic?si=n6TpcN748B2WvI8n

NED - RUSSIA: POLLING FOR DEMOCRACY, THE YURI LEVADA ANALYTICAL CENTER (September 2011):

https://www.ned.org/democracy-story/russia-polling-for-democracy-the-yuri-levada-analytical-center/

The Guardian - Alexei Navalny obituary (February 16, 2024):

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/feb/16/alexei-navalny-obituary

Wikileaks - A GUIDE TO RUSSIAN POLITICAL YOUTH GROUPS: PART 1 OF 2 (November 2006):

https://wikileaks.org/plusd/cables/06MOSCOW12709_a.html

Wikileaks - RUSSIAN YOUTH POLITICS, OR LACK THEREOF: PART 2 OF 2 (November 2006):

https://wikileaks.org/plusd/cables/06MOSCOW12717_a.html

The Guardian - US campaign behind the turmoil in Kiev (2004):

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2004/nov/26/ukraine.usa

The Atlantic Council - Russia’s democracy movement will survive the death of Navalny (February 16, 2024):

https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/new-atlanticist/russias-democracy-movement-will-survive-the-death-of-navalny/

RFE/RL - Navalny's Failure To Renounce His Nationalist Past May Be Straining His Support (February 2021):

https://www.rferl.org/a/navalny-failure-to-renounce-nationalist-past-support/31122014.html

Euronews - Racist or revolutionary: The complex legacy of Alexei Navalny (July 2023):

https://www.euronews.com/2023/07/07/racist-or-revolutionary-is-alexei-navalny-who-many-westerners-think-he-is