I watched Fareed Zakaria's documentary on Putin early this afternoon, it was just coincidence that CNN was re-playing it (premiered earlier in March) instead of his live show. It's EXCELLENT, learned some things about Trump love over there and Putin's hatred of Hillary and how Putin thinks of Trump as his "Apprentice". I highly recommend it, especially on the cultural angle.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=052NHa39opk

Juan Cole (admittedly, not a Russian expert) makes some nuanced points about Navalny being more like Trump in manty ways than Putin is. He points to an 2013 Atlantic article on Navalny by Robert Coalson, Radio Free Europe/Liberty reporter, Is Aleksei Navalny a Liberal or a Nationalist? that is worth a glance.

It does seem to me, though, that this kind of nationalism would be a given after the Soviet Union fell apart, all part of the process, people re-forming old nations are going to go through it. It's the opposite of what's happening elsewhere, like in say, France, people basically no longer brothers but basically becoming competitors, have to rationalize borders and identities that they were supposed to downplay for 90 years.

In Protests, Kremlin Fears a Young Generation Stirring

New York Times/News Analysis, By ANDREW HIGGINS and ANDREW E. KRAMER from Moscow, March 27

The youthfulness of the anticorruption protesters across Russia this weekend surprised even organizers, and clearly rattled the government of Vladimir V. Putin.