The West already sees him as an icon of freedom.
Alexeï Navalny, the charismatic anti-corruption activist, had become the number one enemy of the master of the Kremlin, who ruthlessly crushed him with his iron fist.
A tall blond with piercing blue eyes, the last images of him show a man with an emaciated face, emaciated and aged by his prison ordeal in a penal colony in the Arctic where he spent multiple stays in the solitary confinement.
Not once did he bend the knee to the new tsar.
His fight against the dictatorship was driven by unfailing determination, with an almost romantic sacrificial dimension.
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After having miraculously survived a poisoning which he attributed to Vladimir Putin, Alexei Navalny was treated in Germany, from where he could have continued his fight.
The opponent chose to return to his country to face justice at the hands of a tyrannical power.
Without a shadow of a doubt, he knew the ultimate price in a country led by…
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