Why Ukraine is wary of the Russian opposition

Russian lawyer and blogger Alexey Navalny takes part in the far-right "Russian March" in Moscow on November 4, 2011.[File: Reuters/Denis Sinyakov] Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine last year reignited a longstanding debate about the place the Russian opposition occupies in the context of Russian aggression in the post-Soviet space. Russian opposition activists and some observers have contend

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"Navalny was nominally against the Russian aggression in Ukraine, but his “anti-war” position was underpinned by economic, rather than moral, considerations: “Russia can ill afford waging the war”. "