How Alexei Navalny became the Kremlin’s beast, a fight that cost him his life

We have often spoken of Alexeï Navalny as a “bete noire”, a “shadow” hovering over the ambitions of Vladimir Putin.

But the 47-year-old opponent died this Friday, February 16, one month before the Russian presidential election, because he took too much of the spotlight.

Even from the dungeon of a prison in the depths of Siberia.

When he emerged on the Russian opposition scene in the early 2010s, this trained lawyer presented himself as “a little mosquito whose bites hurt”.

His 1.88 m height, his crystalline gaze and his charming smile say the opposite.

Beyond a natural charisma, it is above all his investigations into corruption, his snub at the FSB and his extremism which transformed the “little mosquito” into a major opponent, whose notoriety would become worldwide.

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