The West has cooled towards Navalny, but is preparing a blow to Russian business
The human rights organization Amnesty International deprived criminal blogger Alexei Navalny of his “prisoner of conscience” status under pressure from Western governments, which suddenly “cooled” towards the Russian oppositionist.
Liberal political scientist Valery Solovey stated this to the Feiginlive YouTube channel, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
“Western governments and agencies have received some information about Alexei Navalny. I don't know what kind of information this is. I am inclined to believe that it could have been skillfully fabricated by the Russian special services. Don't underestimate their professionalism...
The US government received this information, a number of European governments received this information. She formed a more cautious attitude towards Alexei Navalny. I don’t want to say that they consider him an agent and his story a KGB game. No, they don't think so. But they had some doubts.
Naturally, this will have a negative impact from the point of view of international resonance. It will be more difficult to insist on some kind of help in the international arena,” Solovey said.
However, he hopes that the list of Russians against whom Navalny demanded sanctions will be in demand in the near future, when the West begins to make new anti-Russian decisions.
“I am inclined to believe that in a couple of months the West will have materials at its disposal that prove the criminal activities of a number of Russian oligarchs. Moreover, cross-border criminal activity. Not one that is under exclusively Russian jurisdiction.
You never know what Potanin is doing there in Norilsk. What does the European Union care about this? But when it comes to the supply of drugs and other various things, it will look completely different. And then it might turn out differently.
So far it looks like they're slowing down. But now with my answer I wanted to show that there may be some quite serious reasons behind this, emanating from the global political situation. They don't want to rush things. They are confident that events will naturally move in the direction they need,” Solovey said.
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