Alexei Navalny: He whom the Kremlin must not name
Andrew Higgins
A pro-Kremlin propaganda film posted online before Russia's 2018 presidential election smeared Alexei Navalny, the Russian opposition leader now lying comatose in a German hospital after a poisoning attack, as the reincarnation of Adolf Hitler.
A former prime minister, the target of Navalny's most vivid exposé of corruption, denounced him as a "political con man."
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