Putin’s nemesis
It was –61°F in Yakutsk, about 300 miles south of the Arctic Circle, on Jan. 23, but the people still came. The scene was like something out of a postapocalyptic movie: a queue of dimly visible figures against the whited-out backdrop of a snow squall. They had come to show solidarity with Alexei Navalny.
Navalny, the detained leader of the Russian opposition, was arrested upon his return from Germany, where he had been recovering from an
