No ‘color revolution’ to greet Navalny’s return to Russia

Russians can voice their objections to the Kremlin, but an FSB operation to murder an opposition leader has not provoked national indignation By Ekaterina Kotrikadze Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny is about to disturb Russia’s laziest month. As in Soviet times, the New Year holiday stretches halfway through this month, allowing time for Russians to drink, eat oranges and watch nostalgic 1970s romantic comedies. Politics usually gets put on hold — but perhaps not this year, with Navalny’s planned return from Berlin today, following his poisoning in August last year. The end of last year signaled that this edition of January would be different, because we Russians learned that Navalny, the...