The West hopes from afar that Alexei Navalny (1976-2024) will be remembered as the man who, by his death, triggered the first real stirrings of uprising against Vladimir Putin’s ironclad tyranny. Thousands attended his funeral on Friday in one of the most open displays of defiance against the Kremlin since the inception of Putin’s presidency at the dawn of the millennium. Navalny died in the … Continue reading Russia: The Death of Alexei Navalny