Oh dear.
Well, are you reading what non-Russian media are writing about him?
" Russian Opposition Leader Alexei Navalny: Uniting Nationalists and the Urban, Educated Middle Class "
" How Alexey Navalny is changing Putin's Russia "
" Russian protest hero Alexei Navalny presses on with anti-corruption efforts against oil firm "
There is a serious gap between what the Russians here are saying about Navalny and how he is presented in Western media.
I choose to believe the Russians at MR.
But this is like a case study for a Media in Politics class... What the h-ck is going on?
And meanwhile, according to RT.com:
" December was an Information War Against Russia "