What Navalny’s death tells us about Russia
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The sudden death of Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny, claimed as political murder by his family and supporters, is a blow to democrats everywhere. Navalny persistently questioned Putin’s regime despite facing trumped-up charges and surviving an assassination attempt with a nerve agent, Novichok. Russia has struggled to transform itself into an electoral democracy with credible institutions and a clear separation of powers. Putin’s rise to power brought stability but also centralization of power in Moscow and an overtly nationalist and authoritarian regime with no space for dissent.
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