In 2003, four years into Russia’s President Vladimir Putin’s tenure and with liberal politics at a nadir, I visited the Moscow office of the center-left Yabloko Party. There, among the 50-something inveterate anti-communists that dominated the party, sat a 27-year-old staff member. It was Aleksei Navalny.
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A man walks next to the gate of the IK-3 penal colony where jailed Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny was reportedly transferred to the city of Vladimir on April 19, 2021.
