<p>The research question that motivated the authors for this study is as follows: what narratives define the attitudes to the Russo–Ukrainian war among the most visible Navalny’s sympathizers who escaped Russia and settled in Europe? The article starts with a discussion on the political and academic categorizations of Navalny’s views and their evolution. After that, we delve into the debate on the primary problems of the Russian political regime as seen from the perspective of Navalny and his associates, and the related issue of responsibility for the invasion in Ukraine, which brings us to the polemics on Russian colonialism and deimperialization. The remaining sections discuss how Navalny’s followers see today’s West and how they envisage the future changes in Russia. We conclude by summarizing our main arguments and conceptualizing them from a political science perspective.</p>