If you just happened to be an American “journalist” on a propaganda tour, raving about the greatness of Moscow supermarkets and subways, this couldn’t have come at a more awkward time.
And if you think Vladimir Putin feels any embarrassment about it, you don’t understand dictators.
VLADIMIR Putin's top critic Alexei Navalny has died in a hellhole Siberia prison, Russia has claimed.
Prison officials today said the jailed Russian opposition leader, 47, collapsed inside a brutal Polar Wolf jail where he was being kept and could not be resuscitated.'
Navalny, 47, was one of Putin's greatest enemies and his leading domestic critic in Russia - bravely challenging the tyrant's brutal war in Ukraine.
He had suffered serious health problems in jail, and was - according to prison officials - out for a walk in the prison compound when he mysteriously collapsed.
Russia…
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