Alexei Navalny The President of Russia Vladimir Putin in public speeches do not mention the opposition leader Alexei Navalny by name, said the press Secretary of the head of state, Dmitry Peskov. His words to the correspondent “Tapes.ru” on Friday, December 15. “Apparently connected with the relation to this person, that yesterday the President did not hide during the press conference,” Peskov said in response to the question of why the President did not mention the name of the opposition, after the TV presenter Ksenia Sobchak. A Kremlin spokesman has also denied the suggestion that the President’s response as a confession that the decision on rejection of the opposition for the presidential elections was political. “No. We have not had this experience. In this case, we believe this impression is erroneous,” said the spokesman. Yesterday during a press conference Sobchak has declared that in Russia there are worthy candidates in
