[dua2020]

"But on review, Amnesty International concluded that comments made by Navalny some 15 years ago, including a video which appears to compare immigrants to cockroaches, amounted to "hate speech" which was incompatible with the label "prisoner of conscience"."

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-56181084

[stjohnswarts]

note to others: there are different levels of asshole. There are those who are bigots and there are those who would murder a nation to assuage his ego, they are usually not the same.

[dua2020]

Indeed you are right, no moral equivalence is implied.

But in the long run, white supremacists should not be looked to as an appropriate or effective opposition to Putin.

And it is interesting that the western media can't find any one else to be the face of liberal democracy in Russia, is it because they can't find one or because they are just too lazy to check Navalny's actual position on things.

[ladyanita22]

Everything that can take down Putin is an ally of mine.

Once Putin is taken down, we will discuss about the appropriateness of this or the other leader.