The original photograph of Aleksei Navalny, right, with the billionaire Mikhail ProkhorovPhotograph: Alexey Yushenkov/www.thetimes.co.ukA newspaper ran an altered photograph of Aleksei Navalny, right, showing him in a photomontage with exiled financier Boris Berezovsky rather than the billionaire politician in order to suggest the opposition is funded by shadowy foreign-based forces intent on the downfall of Vladimir PutinPhotograph: www.thetimes.co.ukThe clumsy attempt to smear Navalny provoked a torrent of scorn online from his supporters who produced this image of Aleksei Navalny in a photomontage with Vladimir PutinPhotograph: navalny.livejournal.com
Commenters on Navalny's blog posted various faked pictures. Here, the blogger, is in a photomontage with an alienPhotograph: navalny.livejournal.comAleksei Navalny in a photomontage with Lord Voldemort from Harry PotterPhotograph: navalny.livejournal.comAleksei Navalny in a photomontage with the actor Arnold SchwarzeneggerPhotograph: navalny.livejournal.comAleksei Navalny in a photomontage with Joseph StalinPhotograph: navalny.livejournal.comAleksei Navalny in a photomontage with Futurama's Bender Bending RodriguezPhotograph: navalny.livejournal.comAleksei Navalny in a photomontage with Napoleon BonapartePhotograph: navalny.livejournal.comAleksei Navalny in a photomontage with Adolf HitlerPhotograph: navalny.livejournal.com
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