Fiona Hill

He's a Russian nationalist and a Russian patriot.

And he's often, you know, been, you know, quite critical about immigration.

He's had some negative views about, you know, from one point of view, he said, don't feed the caucuses.

you know, kind of played upon some of the, you know, the racial and ethnic tensions inside of, you know, Russia itself as well.

Now he is a pluralist and he's kind of, and he wants to have, you know, a different set of political actors there, but he also isn't promoting revolution.

He's not Lenin.

He's not wanting to bring down the state.

He wants to kind of, you know, change the people who are in charge.

That's what he's being basically focused on.

And, you know, he might have,

and do things that we elsewhere might not like.

That's absolutely right.

And he grew up in that same system.

Now he's younger than Putin, so he's got a different generational perspective.

And he's not wedded to the Soviet Union or, you know, kind of some concept of the Russian Empire.

He doesn't seem to spend a lot of time, I don't know what he's doing, you know, in jail, but he's probably not sitting around, you know, reading Lomonosov and, you know, the great kind of tracts of Russian history.

Could be, actually.

But, I mean, I think, you know, Navalny has a different worldview and a different perspective, just like Medvedev was different, you know, in his time and presidency and made some, you know, changes and some innovations there.

But don't think that they're going to be radically different.

Because, look,