Alexei Navalny: Iron-willed pragmatist with a nationalist streak
(WorldNews Europe)

In All the Kremlin`s Men, his study of Russian president Vladimir Putin`s closest allies and fiercest enemies, prominent Moscow journalist Mikhail Zygar describes opposition leader Alexei Navalny as “probably the only real politician in the whole 143-million-strong country”. “If Russia had an open political system, then Navalny would probably not be alone. But because it does not, there seems to be no one else crazy enough to trade real life for politics,” Zygar writes. “Why does Navalny continue to believe that his time will come and that one day he could succeed Putin as president? There`s only one rational explanation – he`s an alien.” Zygar wrote that in 2016, when Navalny was routinely...