The main reason I don't have any respect for this "movement" (if you can even call it that) is that the leaders (at least Navalny) don't really have any principals. His only principal goes like this: "if Putin did/said it, it is bad". Putin could announce the most wonderful thing possible, and Navalny will find some way to find fault with it. He refuses to recognize that Putin has enormous positives (which the vast majority agree with), and this is why he cannot build up more than his handful of supporters.
You are right about this guy. The politicians running as anti-corruption crusaders are historically spoilers especially in countries caught in a middle income trap. They are incapable as leaders more like agents of destabilization and usually has something much worse following them exploiting all the destabilization to take power.
Another point Navalny is Yale educated, a frequent visitor of US Embassy and his family lives in New Jersey.
That’s some real collusion there.
US aren’t doing a good work for freedom and democracy in Russia by backing these people.