Thread by @ABarbashin

Alexei Chesnakov, a political technologist often associated with Vladislav Surkov gives his rundown on how the Kremlin destroyed Navalny movement. He lists six major narratives against Navalny and his movement

1. Foreign influence
Navalny and his team work in the interests of foreign powers, including foreign intelligences; are linked to "toxic" personalities like @Billbrowder and @McFaul (as defined by the Kremlin); call for sanctions against Russia; are foreign funded

2. Ethics
Have no right to call for protests while remaining outside of the country ("they are cynical"); use donations for personal enrichment;

3. Extremism
Call on children to participate in political protests; recognized by the court as extremists;

4. Internal split
Navalny activists are expendable for movement leadership (vertical split); those activists that remain in Russia are forced to cooperate while the emigres get radicalized with the help of security provided by the West (horizontal split); internal document leaks

5. Toxicity
The price of supporting Navalny in Russia rises by the hour

6. Personal factors
Protests leaders traits are being used to build antipathy towards the movement as a whole

Chesnakov concluded that Kremlin was effective with administration of this campaign and won - the movement is destroyed, Kremlin is victories. Says Navalny and his team should have known better that they can't handle the risk.

So. Chesnakov is right in listing the narratives that have been used against Navalny and his team and that those narrative are Kremlin created/promoted.
Those narratives are build on lies and manipulations.
It is how Kremlin plays.

Additional point, as per @alxgraef spot on reaction, I should have mentioned that Chesnakov is a personal friend of Surkov and was deputy head in the PA under Surkov. So, these are not just "some guy's" ideas about state-sponsored attack on Navalny