Ilya Yashin believes Alexei Navalny was killed as a demonstration of power by Vladimir Putin. Navalny will go down in history as a “man of extraordinary courage”, says the Russian opposition figure.

YashIn is serving his sentence of eight and a half years in prison in the Safono penal colony near the western Russian city of Smolensk. He denounced the “murder of civilians in Bucha” by the Russian military in the Ukraine war.