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Alexei Navalny is going to prison. Can his movement to depose Vladimir Putin survive? Vox.com 2/2/2021 Alex Ward © Alexander Nemenov/AFP via Getty Images Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny escorted out of a police station on January 18, 2021, outside Moscow. He was sentenced to prison for 2.5 years in February. A Russian court has sentenced opposition leader Alexei Navalny to two and a half years in prison, striking a devastating blow to the pro-democracy movement threatening President Vladimir Putin’s rule. Last August, Navalny was poisoned with Novichok, a highly lethal nerve agent that was placed on the inside of his underpants before a flight, an operation almost certainly directed by the Kremlin, if not by Putin himself.

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