Because we were not born yesterday, it is hard to accept that the death of Alexei Navalny in a notorious former Soviet gulag was natural and that it had nothing to do with his rising stature in Russia’s politics.
Navalny, Russia’s foremost opposition leader who had been in jail on trumped-up charges, died on Friday under mysterious circumstances. On Sunday, his battered body was found in a morgue. For years, he has been an irritant in the violent dictatorship of the government of Vladimir Putin, Russia’s president. His first term of imprisonment was on charges of embezzlement...
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