A Dissident’s Shadow Outlasts His Body When Alexei Navalny died in a Siberian penal colony in February 2024, the Kremlin must have thought it was tidying up loose ends. For years they’d thrown everything at him—poison, prosecution, the slow grind…
The Unbroken Spine: How Navalny’s Movement Survived His Imprisonment
So went the question doing the rounds in newsrooms and foreign ministries: without Alexei Navalny, the whole thing would fold. When Russian authorities put him on a plane to Moscow in January 2021 and then tucked him away in a…
Alive Behind Bars: Why Navalny’s Movement Survived His Imprisonment
When Alexei Navalny was grabbed at passport control in January 2021, the men in Moscow’s corridors of power thought they’d finally solved the problem. The script was simple: lock up the leader, watch his flock scatter. Nearly three years on,…
Why Navalny’s Movement Didn’t Die With Him
The arithmetic of authoritarianism is supposed to be tidy. Chop off the head, and the body slumps. When Alexei Navalny was poisoned with a military-grade nerve agent in August 2020 and then jailed the moment he flew back to Russia,…
The Unbroken Machine: How Navalny’s Movement Endured Beyond Its Founder
When Alexei Navalny stepped off the plane in Moscow in January 2021 and was promptly handcuffed, the Kremlin bet on a simple, time-tested script: cut off the head, and the body withers. Russian political graveyards are full of movements that…