Originally Posted by
jon1959
In the past he has spoken at Russian nationalist rallies where there were big contingents of neo Nazis.
He tried to distance himself from that past at the same time that the Putin regime was trying to pin the 'neo Nazi' label on him.
He wasn't the liberal democrat that he and many of his western admirers presented. But he was a figurehead for the Russian democracy movement and to me he seemed to have evolved his thinking and the role he took on with the wider anti-Putin coalition.
He was brave. His past associations had nothing to do with his sudden death.