Navalny is returning to Moscow a few days ago, on January 17, he announced this on his Twitter account.
I will not stand aside and try to consider the possible reasons for the return of the politician, his motivation, and even calculate what will happen next.
There are several options why he decided to return right now.
Someone says that Navalny, no matter how he tried to curry favor with the new democratic government of the United States, could not get himself a seat at Biden's inauguration (eh, no matter what the resonance, this is legitimization, no matter how he rose, but, alas, that's it has not grown to the size of real politicians and big guys).
Others believe that the fact is that he stayed too long in Germany and was politely asked to leave the country.
After all, he is a citizen of Russia and how much longer can Navalny be fed from the taxes of the Germans.
There is also a third hypothetical option - they are losing interest in Navalny and the situation around him, pseudo-poisoning and, in general, the state of health has completely dried up as an information lead, it's time to come up with something new.
Not to mention the fact that since his forced departure, views on the Anti-Corruption Foundation's YouTube channel * fell, and before that, donations began to fall as well.
In short, without a boss at the workplace, FBK's work is not going so smoothly and harmoniously, “the dulls are not muddied, the grandmas are not spinning,” and a crisis is looming.
Initially, Navalny said that he would return as soon as he felt better and health allowed.
And here it is already difficult to continue playing the role of the great patient and martyr, because everyone has long seen from his photographs and videos that the “Berlin patient” has everything in order with self-awareness, he is full of health and has completely resumed sports.
But, probably, he did not return earlier, because he decided, as he was used to, to celebrate the New Year and spend the January holidays with his family not in Russia, but abroad.
And only after that he allegedly "missed his country and his city."
And, despite the fact that Navalny writes that there was never a question - whether to return to his home or not, because he flew away not at his own will, but in an "intensive care box", he always had a choice - how to return to Russia and when as well as in the role of someone - a hero or a loser.
And let's not be cunning, Alexey Anatolyevich, you did everything so that both your departure and your return were noticed and no one forgot about you.
It is interesting how Navalny announced his return, mentioning the carrier, the low-cost airline Pobeda.
Here he had to work very accurately in order to launder his reputation as a novice of fugitive millionaires.
Of course, he could have returned on a private plane, because the connections and means of influential friends allow him.
But it is prettier for headlines and more understandable for the target audience to use a Russian low-cost airline.
Now, upon returning to Moscow, I think one should expect a provocation from his supporters and FBK employees.
Surprisingly (although there is no wonder), there are many infantile and immature people among his like-minded people who, it seems, did not face real problems in life, and if they did, they did not learn anything, did not reflect.
And now he, Navalny, living like Christ in his bosom and at the expense of others, seems to them an incredibly courageous "surviving mountaineer."
Although there are so many people around who are truly heroic, especially now, in a pandemic.
But, apparently, it is more pleasant to surround yourself with an illusion and believe in the superheroes of the Marvel Universe, or, at the very least, in a fictional character named Alexei Navalny - the winner of the "Novice" and the leader of the "hamsters".
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