Vladimir Putin deprived Alexeï Navalny of everything, to the point of taking his life. But he was defeated by this act of supreme freedom which saw Navalny - with the decision to return to Russia in 2021 after the Novichok poisoning attempt miraculously foiled.
The assassination of Alexei Navalny is part of a long line of executions by Vladimir Putin of his opponents, such as Boris Nemtsov, riddled with bullets in 2015 for denouncing the war in Ukraine, or the journalist Anna Politkovskaya in 2006.