WASHINGTON — 'He's not doing well.'
When Navalny ran for the Moscow mayoralty in 2013, Volkov joined his campaign. It was a quixotic bid, but Navalny waged the contest with determination,, an astonishing result in an election whose outcome was never in doubt.
“I want to live in a normal country, and I refuse to accept any talk about Russia being doomed to being a bad, poor or servile country. I want to live here, and I can't tolerate the injustice that for many people has become routine,” he told NPR a month before the presidential election.Navalny and Volkov persist in holding to the belief in a Russian future that the Russian present does not seem to warrant.
Last week, when Volkov met with U.S. lawmakers from both parties and staffers from both the Senate and House foreign affairs committees, he presented them with a paper fold-out miniature model of Navalny’s cell, an 80-square-foot concrete box containing a sink, a small chair and, as Volkov puts it, “well, that’s it.”
If such calls exert little influence on Russian authorities, they nevertheless serve to remind that the way Navalny is treated matters to Washington and London, Brussels and Paris. Volkov and other Navalny supporters believe that the Kremlin won’t kill him if it believes that the West would exact a price for his murder, such as more stringent sanctions.
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