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Maybe Russian President Vladimir Putin is just an old softy after all, and realized that killing Alexei Navalny was not the sort of thing civilized countries do.
Or maybe not. After facing weeks of protests and a growing regime of sanctions, it could be the Russian president concluded that silencing Navalny, without necessarily taking his life, was preferable to dealing with the inevitable uproar that would follow his death.
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