by Jonah Goldberg Alexei Navalny didn’t simply die. He wasn’t just murdered. He was tortured to death. It didn’t happen on the rack or mid-beating, but Vladimir Putin — who had tried to eliminate him earlier — slowly killed Navalny all the same. Putin sent the Russian ...
by Trudy Rubin The awarding of the Oscar for best documentary to the film “Navalny” was well-deserved, not only because it is a riveting film, but because it prods us to think about what will happen to Russia if Vladimir Putin loses his war on Ukraine. Alexei Navalny is ...
by Trudy Rubin Western allies are finally realizing the Ukraine war won’t end until Vladimir Putin’s dreams of conquest are decisively defeated on the battlefield. But that reality is forcing strategists to contemplate what might happen inside Russia if Putin can no longer hide ...
by Virginia Heffernan 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 ...
by Leonid Bershidsky For a decade, Russian President Vladimir Putin has avoided putting his gadfly opponent Alexey Navalny behind bars for any considerable length of time — until last Tuesday, when a Moscow court ordered Navalny to spend the next two-and-a-half years in ...