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Alexei Navalny's big gamble

30 April 2021

3:58 PM

30 April 2021

3:58 PM

Alexei Navalny seems to undergoing a metamorphosis. Yesterday, we saw him attending another trial by video, looking gaunt after 24 days of hunger strike. But if anything, the more attenuated his frame, the more his moral certainty shone through it.

An appeals hearing for a separate charge of insulting a Second World War veteran gave him a rare opportunity to speak to the outside world.

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