Navalny has boxed Putin into a 'humiliating' Catch-22, national security officials say
A weekend of demonstrations against President Vladimir Putin, sparked by the arrest of opposition and anti-corruption activist Alexei Navalny, has boxed Putin into an odd corner, according to European diplomats and intelligence officials.
Putin suddenly has no obvious good options for dealing with Navalny, a longtime critic of the Russian autocrat.
Navalny had just returned to Russia from Germany where he had recovered from being poisoned last August while in Tomsk, Russia, probably by Putin loyalists. He was imprisoned upon his arrival - which only heightened his profile.
That seems to be derailing Putin's preferred narrative, which is that Navalny is an irrelevant gadfly and not the leader of a mass movement that might return democracy to Russia.
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