Navalny is an ultranationalist who run an overtly racist anti immigration campaign when he tried to become the mayor of Moscow.
He is a political prisoner however the west should really stop trying to set him up as some sort of savior.
The problem with Russia isn’t the politicians it’s the complete lack of any government institutions that facilitate even the slightest shred of collective decision making.
Russia now is more autocratic than the USSR ever was because the USSR at least had party politics and the massive bureaucratic machine that needed to be appeased.
Russia as a nation is utterly broken it’s far closer to North Korea than to say China.
And the worst thing is that I don’t see a way out for them and for us from all of this at all. Taking out Putin isn’t going to fix things it would be a bandaid at most.