Russian State Media Compares Donald Trump to Alexei Navalny After Indictment

The latest indictment of former U.S. President Donald Trump remains one of the hottest topics in Russia. In the past, Moscow’s top propagandists frequently voiced their hope that in 2024, Trump will return to the Oval Office and immediately halt military aid to Ukraine, which would boost the Kremlin’s failing invasion of Ukraine.

Seemingly caught off-guard by this development, state media mouthpieces are resorting to outrageous comparisons between the pending criminal cases against Trump to the Kremlin’s treatment of dissidents like opposition leader Alexei Navalny, who was poisoned,…