“
Someone you have deprived of everything is no longer in your power.
He is completely free again
,” wrote Alexander Solzhenitsyn in
The
First Circle
.
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 - do, in all conscience and in a purely gratuitous manner, the sacrifice of his life for the dignity of men, the freedom of a people and the honor of a nation.
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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 , shot dead in 2006. It constitutes one crime too many.
Alexeï Navalny is even greater dead than alive, as evidenced by the refusal to return his body...
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