Liberal party Yabloko and the movement of Alexei Navalny hope that the opposition can make inroads on United Russia in the Duma parliamentary election.
This precipitated the exit of many key Navalny lieutenants from Russia, such as his chief of staff, Leonid Volkov, now trying to effect change in exile.
"It is not exactly clear what explains this fall," said Ben Noble, co-author of the just-released book,"One possibility is that people have lost hope in Navalny and his vision for the future now that he is behind bars," he told,"or maybe people are more afraid to voice their support, given the legal sanctions for being associated with an 'extremist' organization.
Smart voting may be able to exploit a weakness in the power vertical but with its goal of splitting the vote, this approach favors results over principles. "If many people vote for the Communists, it will be a huge signal for the authorities to implement more aggressive policies towards local populations and foreign countries."
The narrative that Navalny provides, that of a politician facing persecution, is a comprehensible one for the media and politicians in the West who in Ryabkov's view"do not really understand what is happening in Russian politics."Apple, Google Removing Voting App Shows Kremlin Is Afraid–Navalny Aide
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