The current Ukraine crisis...

[Vasilisa]

to all of you reading this, who are convinced that Russia is not a democracy, 

I suppose it was only just a matter of time before the question "what is a democracy?" came up.

So I will just ask one question for now. If Russia is a democracy, why was Alexei Navalny poisoned and imprisoned?

Democracy in Russia? Who told you about this? Russia was closer to a veiled monarchy in Soviet times, as it is now. It's just that it's served in such a "democratic wrapper". I have already said that due to some national peculiarities, our other state structure does not work. (Again, my personal opinion)

As for Navalny, I can ask the same question about Assange. (I apologize for repeating Margan's question, but these arguments are quite reasonable)