Navalny's collaborators maintain that the Kremlin was negotiating to exchange the dissident for a Russian spy. “You can't change anything now, but I want you to understand how psychopathic Putin is.
Here is the story step by step,” says the head of the Anti-Corruption Foundation established by Navalny. The German government has declined to comment on those accusations. According to Navalni's collaborators, the Russian president "hated him so much that he acted to the detriment of himself and his own interests"