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MOSCOW - Glancing out the window at the swirling snow, Aleksei Navalny, the Russian opposition activist, mused aloud about how mounting economic problems, along with some public antagonism toward the Kremlin's role in the war in Ukraine, may have damaged President Vladimir Putin's administration enough to make it vulnerable.

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