Alexei Navalny and Yulia Navalnaya at a rally before the Moscow mayoral election in 2013 [Navalny family] Yulia Navalnaya intends to be president of Russia, she tells me. She looks me straight in ...
For Russian liberals, late opposition leader Alexei Navalny represented a glimmer of hope for a democratic future. Its ...
By the time Russia launched its full-bore invasion in 2022, Navalny, whose family’s roots are in a Ukrainian village near Chernobyl, was in prison. He reproduced in the memoir a statement he ...
which forced his family to move when he was 10; and a prison diary kept over the course of his three-year confinement at the hands of Putin. Navalny’s enduring idealism, optimism and humor ...
The irony is deliberate; Navalny had every reason to believe he would be arrested the moment he stepped foot on Russian soil. For years, he writes, he and his family were routinely harassed.