It's no more or less ironic than Navalny the documentary being produced by CNN films.

If you're a dissident rival foreign powers will give you a platform which you won't get domestically.

Plenty of Russians think Navalny was a traitor because he made western documentaries. It's good to know you agree with them that releasing dissident material with a hostile foreign power means he is automatically a traitor I guess.

I wouldn't say that that is a position I agreed with though. I would say the principled stance is that dissidents should use the options available to them to avoid being silenced - hostile power or no.

We can't all be principled though, can we?