Natan Sharansky: Why Alexei Navalny Is Playing With His Life
Navalny detained by the police at an unauthorized opposition protest in Moscow's Pushkinskaya Square in May 2018. (Mikhail Pochuyev\TASS via Getty Images)
Talking to the former Soviet dissident about the man facing down Vladimir Putin.
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“One man who stopped lying could bring down a tyranny,” said Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, the great Soviet dissident, who knew this to be true because he himself lived it. So did Nelson Mandela. So did Vaclav Havel.
It’s hard to watch Alexei Navalny’s recent moves against Putin’s Russia and not imagine that he could join that pantheon.
Nalanvy, readers will r…
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