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Russia’s opposition has lost a crucial leader but gained a martyr
Alexei Navalny’s death is a sign of how Vladimir Putin’s dictatorship has transformed.
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Alexei Navalny’s death leaves the embattled Russian opposition without its most effective and charismatic leader in a generation.
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The Economist
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“If it happened, if they decided to kill me, it means that we are unbelievably strong at that moment,” Alexei Navalny once told an interviewer, on one of the many occasions he was asked about being assassinated.
The answer was vintage Navalny: ever hopeful in the face of existential terror.
