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Why Vladimir Putin can’t keep Alexei Navalny down

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Virginia Heffernan
Aug 27, 2021
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Alexei Navalny is considered the man Vladimir Putin fears and despises more than anyone on Earth.

Quite an honor.

What’s really unusual about Navalny, a formidable dissident, anti-corruption crusader and now a political prisoner — is his tone. In spite of having been jailed, poisoned, rendered comatose and then jailed again, he’s not dour, sol…

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