- NAVALNY FLEW TO THE U.S.!! - NAVALNY WENT TO MEET WITH THE STATE DEPARTMENT! - AFTER RETURNING FROM THE U.S., NAVALNY MET WITH THIS PERSON, AND BEFORE THE FLIGHT HE MET WITH THAT PERSON! - NAVALNY IS A FOREIGN AGENT! ⠀ A couple of months ago, when I flew to New York to film material for the investigation published today, all the Kremlin Telegram channels and pro-Putin rags practically screamed themselves hoarse. ⠀ And now the investigation is out. And it turns out that I flew there to film how a host on the state TV channel Russia-1 paid $25,000 to New York’s Central Park for the right to put a small plaque on a park bench bearing the names of her—the state TV host—and her “beloved,” the head of a loss-making state bank and a member of the Supreme Council of United Russia (the ruling pro-Kremlin party). ⠀ But the pro-Putin Telegram channels don’t want to write about that. Suddenly my trip to New York is no longer interesting to them. Just as they have no interest at all in looking into where a state banker gets the money to give a state TV host a yacht and a private jet. ⠀ It’s remarkable how things work in Russia. Putin’s United Russia cronies steal on a scale of billions. They put up plaques about their mistresses in parks in the U.S., and somehow you’re still the foreign agent.