“Medvedev can steal so much and so openly because Putin does the same, only on a grander scale; because everyone in government does the same, because the judges and the prosecutors and the special services are also doing the same. . . . The system is so rotten that there is nothing healthy left.”
The Trump administration, which has been backed up by
Russian propaganda outlets in denouncing reports on its own activities as “fake
news,” can hardly be expected to assist courageous dissidents such as Mr. Navalny
in exposing truths about the Kremlin. But other Western governments and
nongovernmental organizations should do what they can to help. Disseminating
evidence of Mr. Putin’s corruption would be an appropriate response to Russia’s
disinformation campaigns in the West.
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