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Hello, and welcome to The Best & The Brightest. I’m Julia Ioffe, taking over for Peter Hamby, who will be back in your inbox tomorrow.
I am still in Munich, where I was covering the Munich Security Forum, perhaps the biggest and most important national security conference of the year. More on that on Wednesday.
Today, however, I wanted to write to you about the death—the murder—of Alexey Navalny, in an Arctic prison in Russia, three days ago. When I first heard the news, I thought I was going to throw up. The days since have been a roller coaster of forgetting, remembering, feeling disbelief, despair, and anger. My friends and family, everyone who was still in Russia and those who had escaped, were also shuttling between shock and grief, a sense that all hope for a better future had been snuffed out. I wanted to write about this, about the hollow grief of a future plucked from people’s hands. But this morning’s events overtook me. More on that below.
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The Tragedy of Navalny |
Alexey Navalny wasn’t simply a powerful oppositional leader or visionary. For many Russians, he was the future leader of a post-Putin Russia—a cosmopolitan democracy that espoused freedom and equality. Now that he is gone, his widow Yulia is taking up the fight. |
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On Thursday night, I ran into Yulia Navalnaya in the lobby of the Bayerischer Hof, the Munich hotel where, once a year, heads of state, intelligence chiefs, defense ministers, and foreign secretaries come together to discuss the state of the world. She was talking to Leonid Volkov, her husband Alexey Navalny’s longtime lieutenant, and Michael McFaul, the former U.S. ambassador to Moscow and a professor at Stanford, where the Navalnys’ daughter, Dasha, is a senior. I hadn’t seen any of them in a long time, so I came over to... |
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