Where is propaganda? If you think Navalny's mother is lying, you apparently have no idea how terrible situation in Russia is. I was born in Soviet Union, believe me, nothing has much changed in this regard. Putin is KGB guy after all.

Btw, article is from Russian news outlet meduza.io, now based in Riga, Latvia, because you can't do independent media normally in Russia nowadays. So it's not by Westerners, it's by Russians.