In the game of cat and mouse, Alexeï Navalny is a particularly tough opponent for Vladimir Poutine.
Having had the bad taste of surviving poisoning with Novichok - a military substance that points to the involvement of the Russian state - he pushed the challenge to the point of confusing his attackers, publishing the names, addresses and photos of eight agents of the FSB (ex-KGB) who had spun him for months.
He even tricked one of them into pretending to be his superior, leading him to detail the assassination attempt in a fifty-minute recording.
With his theatrical return to Moscow on January 17, despite a threat of imprisonment which we have seen the reality, he crowned himself the de facto number one opponent of the Russian president.
Eager to be one step ahead, the dissident has arguably crossed a point of no return by violating Putin's private sanctuary, with a nearly two-hour documentary - seen 100 million times - on the aberrant splendor of 'a property
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