Usmanov and opposition leader Aleksei Navalny have exchanged strongly worded video attacks | Democracy, elections and voting at Democracy Chronicles

Russian tycoon Alisher Usmanov and opposition leader Aleksei Navalny have exchanged bitter, strongly worded video attacks as they rejected a Moscow court’s proposed settlement in a defamation case. Usmanov, an Uzbek-born billionaire with ties to the Kremlin, filed the lawsuit in April against Navalny and his Anticorruption Foundation. The defamation claim stems from a March 2…