Wikileaks Reveals Alexei Navalny’s US Funding as Washington Exploits His Death

– Alexei Navalny’s political activities were funded by the US government through the National Endowment for Democracy (NED) as part of an effort to repeat US-backed 2014 Ukraine regime change inside Russia itself;

– The Western media had previously (and reluctantly) revealed Navalny as far-right, racist, and xenophobic despite efforts to pass him off as a progressive pro-democracy activist;

– US government-funded polling agencies consistently found Alexei Navalny extremely unpopular in Russia with single digit approval ratings;

– After an alleged 2020 “Novichok” poisoning, Navalny’s popularity “surged” to 20% as the Western media accused Moscow of being behind the incident;

– The US is now exploiting the death of Navalny to advance its anti-Russia policy while the Western media collective omits all relevant context regarding Navalny’s background and US funding;

References:

NYT – Navalny’s Death Raises Tensions Between U.S. and Russia (February 16, 2024):
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/16/wo…

CNN – Putin saw an existential threat in Navalny, the opposition leader whose name he dared not mention (February 16, 2024):
https://edition.cnn.com/2024/02/17/eu…

Al Jazeera – Alexey Navalny: An archenemy Putin wouldn’t name and Kremlin couldn’t scare (February 16, 2024):
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/2…

Reuters – Putin critic Navalny’s approval rating surges in wake of poisoning (October 2020):
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-ru…

The New Atlas – CNN + Bellingcat’s Latest Russian Novichok Lies | 12/16/2020 Review (December 2020):
   • CNN + Bellingcat’s Latest Russian Nov…  

NED – RUSSIA: POLLING FOR DEMOCRACY, THE YURI LEVADA ANALYTICAL CENTER (September 2011):
https://www.ned.org/democracy-story/r…

The Guardian – Alexei Navalny obituary (February 16, 2024):
https://www.theguardian.com/world/202…

Wikileaks – A GUIDE TO RUSSIAN POLITICAL YOUTH GROUPS: PART 1 OF 2 (November 2006):
https://wikileaks.org/plusd/cables/06…

Wikileaks – RUSSIAN YOUTH POLITICS, OR LACK THEREOF: PART 2 OF 2 (November 2006):
https://wikileaks.org/plusd/cables/06…

The Guardian – US campaign behind the turmoil in Kiev (2004):
https://www.theguardian.com/world/200…

The Atlantic Council – Russia’s democracy movement will survive the death of Navalny (February 16, 2024):
https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/blogs…

RFE/RL – Navalny’s Failure To Renounce His Nationalist Past May Be Straining His Support (February 2021):
https://www.rferl.org/a/navalny-failu…

Euronews – Racist or revolutionary: The complex legacy of Alexei Navalny (July 2023): https://www.euronews.com/2023/07/07/r…