Berlin Liar, coward, traitor. A storm of indignation has recently descended on Leonid Volkov, one of the closest confidants of the imprisoned Putin critic Alexei Navalny.
Not only for him it is devastating. It highlights the state of the Russian opposition as a whole. The scandal was “probably the biggest since the beginning of the war” against Ukraine, according to the online platform “The Bell”, which the Kremlin denounced as a “foreign agent”.
Leonid Volkov and other members of the opposition recently signed a letter to the EU Commission asking for sanctions against a group of Russian oligarchs led by billionaire Mikhail Fridman to be lifted. The signatories question that these super-rich “were somehow connected to Putin’s regime or should be held responsible for his crimes.”
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