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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.
By Konstantin Kisin
02.20.24 — U.S. Politics
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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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Konstantin Kisin
Konstantin Kisin is a Russian-British satirist and social commentator. He is the author of An Immigrant's Love Letter to the West and co-host of TRIGGERnometry.
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