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Re:Russian forces “preparing to work under radioactive conta... by n4r9 on Wednesday October 26, 2022 @12:34PM (#33346127)
It goes back further than that. He was widely seen as the most viable opposition candidate in the 2018 presidential election, before being banned from running on trumped up charges.

https://www.economist.com/europe/2017/06/17/aleksei-navalnys...

I don't know much about his political views; Wikipedia confirms that he does advocate nationalism and controlled immigration, but also supports legalising same-sex marriage, and opposed the annexation of Crimea and Russian interventions in Syria. He certainly comes across as less hawkish than Putin based on that.

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