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Navalny is gone

Navalny is gone

But the dream of a free and democratic Russia lives.

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Feb 16, 2024
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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.

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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.

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