Alexei Navalny: ‘The People Who Look the Other Way’

Alexei Navalny shares a tender moment with his wife Yulia at the prison colony court in Pokrov, Russia, two years before his death. (Photo by Mikhail Svetlov via Getty Images)
In a 2014 courtroom speech, the Russian dissident urged his judges to fight giving into cowardice, and find courage to do the right thing.
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Alexei Navalny was a complex character. Exposer of corruption, the most successful and promising leader of the anti-Putin movement, and a man of great personal courage. He was also not perfect, as I recently discussed in an interview with Freddie Sayers of UnHerd here.
In 2014 he was convicted, along with his brother Oleg, on a set of fabricated fraud ch…
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