Alexey Navalny is Russia’s most prominent opposition figure, an anti-corruption investigator whose exposés have targeted President Vladimir Putin’s inner circle. His sudden illness on a flight from Tomsk to Moscow Aug. 20, which German doctors say was caused by poisoning, fits a pattern of what happens to critics of Putin. The Kremlin has been linked to several similar attacks over the last two decades that share another thing in common: nobody is held accountable. Whatever the Russian leadership did or didn’t know about what happened to Navalny, his critics say Putin shares the blame. The Kremlin dismisses that as “empty noise.”
Washington Post: Putin, poison and the importance of Alexey Navalny
Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny leaves the detention centre in Moscow on August 23, 2019.
