Kremlin critics say the Russian election was a show, with President Vladimir Putin’s victory the dully predictable final act. On election day, Aleksei Navalny and Ksenia Sobchak provided a far livelier sideshow — but it may have done little to help the opposition’s cause.
Shortly before polls closed in Moscow on March 18, Sobchak showed up at Navalny’s headquarters and — in an exchange broadcast live on the opposition leader’s YouTube channel — proposed that they join forces.
