Julia Ioffe Instagram – “Over the weekend, as Alexey Navalny’s death was confirmed by his team—and as the prison authorities announced ‘sudden death syndrome’ as the cause—and as his mother tried to chase down her son’s body in the wilds of the Russian Arctic, the idea that Navalny was gone, forever, sunk in among the Russian opposition, as well as among Russians who are quietly waiting out a regime they loathe,” Julia Ioffe writes.
“The hero and hope of a generation, of the generations coming up behind Putin and his bloody, revanchist fantasies, had been killed. The future, a gleeful Putin seemed to be telling Russians, would be just like the present and the past: an endless, stultifying loop of war and terror and repression, with no end or hope in sight.”
Enter Yulia Navalny.
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