Navalny Persecution Just the Tip of the Russian Crackdown
(World News Russia)

The Kremlin undoubtedly hopes that by packing Alexei Navalny off to prison, it will keep him out of sight, out of mind. Yet Navalny`s many social-media-savvy followers make that unlikely. A growing movement of people discontented with corruption, economic stagnation, and the Kremlin`s autocratic rule means that a political opposition will persist even without Navalny. It`s not hard to see why Navalny gets under Vladimir Putin`s skin. Navalny`s support was once said to extend no further than the intelligentsia of Moscow and St Petersburg, but he eventually built a movement across the country. Last summer while he was visiting supporters in distant Siberia, the Federal Security Service (FSB),...