Read the full edited text transcript of this interview here: https://therealnews.com/putin-navalny-and-the-left-the-coming-political-crisis-in-russia.
Alexei Navalny has been celebrated in the West as the democratic savior of Russia, but are things that simple? New TRNN contributor Radhika Desai and world-renowned sociologist Boris Kagarlitsky discuss what Western media gets wrong about Putin, Navalny, and the political reality on the ground in Russia.

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