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→Unverified claim that Alexei Navalny is a CIA operative was removed
== Unverified claim that Alexei Navalny is a CIA operative was removed ==
== Unverified claim that Alexei Navalny is a CIA operative was removed ==
[[Conservapedia:Commandments|Conservapedia Commandment]] #1: "Everything must be VERIFIABLE and true." No evidence was offered that Alexei Navalny is a CIA operative. So I deleted this unverified claim. [[User:Conservative|Conservative]] ([[User talk:Conservative|talk]]) 15:25, June 10, 2023 (EDT)
[[Conservapedia:Commandments|Conservapedia Commandment]] #1: "Everything must be VERIFIABLE and true." No evidence was offered that Alexei Navalny is a CIA operative. So I deleted this unverified claim. [[User:Conservative|Conservative]] ([[User talk:Conservative|talk]]) 15:25, June 10, 2023 (EDT)
=== I looked at footnote #3 in the article and could not find any info supporting the assertion ===
Despite his high profile [[Western alliance|Westrn media]] presence, Navalny suffers from low-name recognition in the [[Russian Federation]]. A graduate of the Yale World Fellows Program, Navalny is listed on [[Yale]]’s website as a cofounder of the Democratic Alternative Movement, an organization shown in a leaked diplomatic cable to have received funding from the CIA [[regime change]] arm, the [[National Endowment for Democracy]],<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20120504092545/http:/www.cablegatesearch.net/cable.php?id=06MOSCOW12709 A Guide To Russian Political Youth Groups: Part 1 Of 2], Embassy Moscow (Russia), 30 Nov 2006.</ref> a fact it had concealed for “fear of appearing compromised by an American connection.”