Why is Vladimir Putin so afraid of Alexei Navalny?
The Russian opposition leader poses the biggest challenge yet to the president’s power
ALEXEI NAVALNY, Russia’s opposition leader, has become the biggest thorn in Vladimir Putin’s flesh. Last year Russian security forces tried and failed to kill him by poisoning him with a nerve agent. The authorities then arrested him in Moscow in January. On June 9th—just days ahead of Mr Putin’s summit with President Joe Biden—a court banned groups affiliated with Mr Navalny, ruling that they are “extremist organisations”. Why is Russia’s president so afraid of Mr Navalny?
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