Their heads are lodged too firmly up their butts. "It's okay when we do it."
It has been amusing to see how the non-entity Navalny has been elevated to “political opposition and a major threat to Putin” when any polling for him did not move the needle.
Additionally, no one has produced any proof of a Putin order of death for someone entirely insignificant to the upcoming election. There is literally global acceptance of this zero evidence accusation.