Hello, and welcome back to The Best & The Brightest, your Tuesday foreign policy edition. I watched Alexey Navalny’s remarkably bittersweet funeral from my sickbed last week and wanted to share some thoughts and reporting with you. Personally, I’ll just say that seeing him in a coffin, his face waxy and ashen with death, was absolutely unbearable, a final confirmation that Alexey, with all his warmth, wit, and vigor, was no longer with us in the world. If you want to see what he was really like, please watch Navalny, the documentary that won an Oscar last year.
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Hello, and welcome back to The Best & The Brightest, your Tuesday foreign policy edition.
I watched Alexey Navalny’s remarkably bittersweet funeral from my sickbed last week and wanted to share some thoughts and reporting with you. Personally, I’ll just say that seeing him in a coffin, his face waxy and ashen with death, was absolutely unbearable, a final confirmation that Alexey, with all his warmth, wit, and vigor, was no longer with us in the world. If you want to see what he was really like, please watch Navalny, the documentary that won an Oscar last year. And here’s the interview I did with Christo Grozev, one of Navalny’s colleagues and friends, a year ago.
More on Russia after Navalny, below.
But first, here’s Abby Livingston’s report from the Capitol…
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| Moscow After Navalny |
| The fate of the Russian opposition, which was allowed to mourn Alexey Navalny and now faces violence and imprisonment for that small act of protest, feels more unsettled than ever. |
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| On Friday, they buried Alexey Navalny, and despite the risk, tens of thousands of people came out to bid him farewell, turning his funeral into the biggest protest Russia had seen since the full-scale invasion of Ukraine two years ago. Many went despite the prospect of arrest. One Muscovite told me his wife packed a bag for jail, assuming she would be detained. “It was scary,” another recalled. “These guys will hit you on the head, lock you up somewhere.” But staying home was not an option for this person. It wasn’t just that Vladimir Putin had killed the leader of the opposition, someone that this Muscovite, a friend of mine, had admired and followed for years. It was that killing Navalny was only the latest thing Putin had done—after eliminating any vestiges of democratic elections and a free press, after invading and destroying Ukraine, after turning Russia into... |
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