Tea Party corrupted Navalny. Pundit says Russian Navalny was under the influence of US Tea Party a decade ago when he made “unfortunate statements”-Leonid Ragozin, 2/24/2021, and 2/19/2018

2/24/2021, “What’s notable is that the unfortunate statements Navalny made over a decade ago under Tea Party influence draw infinitely more attention than “pro-Western” politicians in other ex-Soviet countries helping Putin by inciting hatred and implementing xenophobic policies today.” Leonid Ragozin twitter….Leonid Ragozin is an independent journalist who “has contributed to Business Week, Guardian, Time, Buzzfeed and The New Republic. He previously worked as BBC producer and Russian Newsweek foreign correspondent.”

Added: Ragozin also blamed the US Tea Party in 2018 article:

2/19/2018, “How Navalny changed the rules of the game in Russia," Leonid Ragozin, Al Jazeera, Riga, Latvia, opinion…(Leonid Ragozin is an independent journalist who “has contributed to Business Week, Guardian, Time, Buzzfeed and The New Republic. He previously worked as BBC producer and Russian Newsweek foreign correspondent.”)

“Navalny’s flirtations with nationalists went ugly in 2007, when – influenced by the American Tea Party rhetoric– Navalny released a video, in which he compared immigrants to nasty bugs, while calling for the legalisation of firearms to defend people from that perceived threat. He lost many liberal friends and potential allies as a result of expressing such ideas and was widely branded “nationalist” in the West.”…

 

 

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