'If They Decide to Kill Me, It Means We Are Strong'

Alexei Navalny, the Russian dissident and anticorruption activist, died today at 47 after, according to the NYT, “los[ing] consciousness on Friday after taking a walk in the prison” where he’d been held since late last year. Some years ago, before Putin brazenly and brutally attacked Ukraine, I published the piece below in the LA Times about Navalny’s c…