Navalny’s cause was hopeless Western freedoms don’t have the same appeal in Russia

During my time covering the Soviet Union, when the late Mikhail Gorbachev was bringing in his groundbreaking democratic reforms, the hope – in the West anyway – was that once Russians got the taste of freedom and democracy, there would be no turning back.…

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