Alexei Navalny, the strongest name among the few opponents Vladimir Putin has in national politics, died last Friday (16). According to official information from the Kremlin, the activist suddenly fell ill while walking in a prison in the Arctic. The statement did not convince the international community American President Joe Biden declared that Putin was “responsible for the death.” The Navalny case joins a list of suspicious accidents that have claimed the lives of anyone who came into conflict with the Russian leader over nearly three decades. The opponent's death comes just a month before presidential elections scheduled for March, in which Putin has the opportunity to retain the country's leadership in his fifth term. To analyze the impact of Navalny's suspicious death and the future of Russia, Natuza Nery interviews Vicente Ferraro, professor at FGVSP and researcher at USP's Asian Studies Laboratory.
The murder of the Russian opposition
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