Russia’s Divided Opposition Must Form an Anti-Putin Coalition

When exiled from their home countries, political figures and organizations often become increasingly radicalized and uncompromising in their opposition to the government they fled. 

For Russia’s opposition, which has almost entirely been exiled or imprisoned, this can be seen in its members’ immediate response to the war, in which they doubled down on calls to sanction Russia’s business elite.

However, after over a year and a half of the largest war on the European continent since World War II, exiled Russian opposition figures have significantly…