The West needs to invest in Russiaâs future generation now and support those fighting against Vladimir Putin from inside the country after Alexei Navalnyâs death left a huge hole in the opposition, the dissidentâs former chief of staff says.
Navalny â Putinâs most significant critic â was announced dead in February, at the remote prison colony in the Arctic where he was serving a sentence on charges decried as trumped up. Western leaders lined up to say Putin was responsible for his death, while Navalnyâs widow, Yulia, has also repeatedly said that the Russian president killed her husband.
Leonid Volkov, a close friend of Navalny, also calls it a murder, one that dealt a âsevere blowâ to the fight against Putin.
âHe always managed to catch Putin by surprise and do something really unexpected,â Volkov tells The Independent. Thatâs something we miss a lot now. Thereâs really no replacement for that.â
It has also brought into sharp relief, he believes, that âno one in the West really knows what they want Russia to look like after Putinâ. The presidentâs latest act was to threaten war on Nato if the US and UK allow Ukrainian forces to fire Western-supplied long-range missiles deep into Russia in their fight against the invaders.
âEurope needs a peaceful, democratic, predictable neighbour and trade partner,â Navalnyâs former chief of staff continues. âEurope definitely doesnât need 20 small states fighting against each other for control over nuclear weapons, nor does it need a giant North Korea behind a huge wall, which would be an imminent source of threat.â
Without a strategy, he suggests, that is where Russia could be heading, though the opposition will always be waiting poised in the wings should Putinâs regime come to an abrupt end. Central to such a rethought, Western strategy should be the abandonment of âvehement discriminationâ against Russian citizens.
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