Protesters hold a picture of Alexey Navalny as they stage a demonstration opposite the Russian Embassy in London, on Feb. 16, in reaction to the news that the jailed Russian opposition leader has died in a Russian prison, according to the Federal Penitentiary Service.
From the beginning, Alexey Navalny represented a fundamentally different, more dangerous threat to Vladimir Putin ’s grasp on power than any of the Russian opposition figures who had come before him. Though he stood on the shoulders of such pro-democracy heroes as Sergei Yushenkov, Anna Politkovskaya, Natalya Estemirova and Boris Nemtsov – all of whom were murdered for their opposition to Mr. Putin’s long and authoritarian rule – Mr. Navalny troubled the Kremlin like no one else.
He was beaten, jailed, poisoned, jailed again and seemingly starved during repeated stints in the notorious isolation ward of a remote Arctic prison
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