Mikhail Levin insists that he is not interested in politics, but there he was, in late January, staring at the camera from behind a laptop, telling 180,000 YouTube viewers what the stars had to say about Alexey Navalny’s future. 

Addressing the Russian opposition leader’s January arrest on return to the country from Germany, where he had undergone months of medical care after a poisoning attempt, 71-year-old Levin showed a lunar calendar. 

“At the moment of return, there was an amazing thing,” he said. “The poisoning was in August and it’s now January. The moon went through many cycles during that time, but the moment of poisoning is almost exactly opposite the moment of arrest. This means that this is the next step in the development of events, and everything is moving according to the stars.” 

“All this change falls into the piggy bank and, when the time comes, it will be used for a revolution in the life of the country,” he added. “The same happened with Yeltsin.”