Why Russia Killed Navalny
Even behind bars, the dissident leader was a threat to the corrupt Russian dictator.
by Anne Applebaum
Feb 16, 2024
3 minutes
Alexei Navalny returned to Russia in January 2021. Right before he boarded the plane, he titled “Putin’s Palace: The Story of the World’s Largest Bribe” on YouTube. The video, nearly two hours long, was an extraordinary feat of investigative reporting. Using secret plans, drone footage, 3-D visualizations, and the testimony of construction workers, Navalny’s video told the story of a hideous $1.3 billion Black Sea villa containing every luxury that a dictator could imagine: a hookah bar, a hockey rink, a helipad, a vineyard, an oyster farm, a
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