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A Ukrainian analyst recently said almost exactly what I’ve been arguing myself — that Russian opposition figures suffer from the so-called “Navalny syndrome.”
I personally call it the “Navalny complex.”

Among them, there are courageous individuals — some have even gone through prison and even labor camps.
Most of them are based in the West, primarily in Europe, and are constantly striving for funding, boldly puffing their chests in front of Euro-Atlantic institutions and bravely fighting from the comfort of their couches and in podcasts.

Their main skill lies in political posturing. They’re hardly effective at anything else.
But!
They suffer from the following flaws and deficiencies:

1. They still can’t free themselves from the Soviet legacy within them.
2. They are possessed by the belief that Russia is a chosen, special, unique, great, imperial state.
3. They do not wish to think like Europeans — instead, they want to persuade Europeans to think like them.
4. As a rule, they regard Crimea and the so-called Russian-speaking territories of Ukraine as legitimately Russian, and for this reason, they oppose not the annexation itself, but the manner in which Putin carries it out.

Russian opposition figures are not part of the solution to Russia’s problems.
They are part of those very problems.

That’s why their masks are beginning to fall.
That’s why they are unfit to serve as a true alternative.
And some of them are on the verge of becoming — or already have become — morally unfit altogether.

April 15, 2025