Anton Troianovski, Moscow Bureau Chief for the New York Times details some of the letters imprisoned Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny wrote to friends and colleagues before his death last week and the latest surrounding detained Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich.
Aleksei A. Navalny died in prison, the Russian authorities said. The anticorruption campaigner rose to become the most prominent critic of President Vladimir V. Putin.
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With United States aid to Ukraine stranded in a political no-man's-land by the far-right wing of the Republican Party, their biggest news media celebrity was dispatched to Russia to make the case for why American conservatives should support the invader.