Guy has become expendable, no longer useful alive since he has been found guilty of committing crimes, according to the laws of the land he can never run for office. He sometimes gets some handful of people to show up at rallies, but his usefulness has hit a dead end, pun intended.
Ruin the world cup for Russia.
Russophobes will not question why Putin would do such a thing just prior to world cup or they are so used to just reading headlines they'll just accept it (sadly many people on all sides do this).
Or maybe Putin's evil is over 9000 he doesn't have to care about details such as the economy n all the work put into the world cup preparation, just to show he can do it, will be worth it.
Navalny will be presented as anti-Putin vlogger n protester and skip details of his fascist racist tendencies..everything must be black n white. Putin is juggernaut of pure ewul n his opponents are soft fluffy bunnies.