Nicholas D. Kristof: 'Alexei Navalny, Russia’s leading dissident and opposition leader, may be something of a Mandela of our age.'
Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny gestures as he stands in a cage in the Babuskinsky District Court in Moscow, Russia, Saturday, Feb. 20, 2021.If Vladimir Putin has left you despising Russians as brutes, cowards or warmongers, consider a tall, ailing man locked in an isolation cell in Russia.
Dasha Navalnaya, the daughter of Alexei Navalny, on campus at Stanford University, where she is a junior, in Stanford, Calif., Feb. 22, 2023. Poisoned, imprisoned, brutalized, Navalny stands unbroken in his cell: still mocking Putin and scathing in his denunciation of the invasion of Ukraine, Nicholas Kristof writes.
Navalny, 46, is a lawyer with a large following in Russia for his withering reports about Russian corruption and about Putin, whom he calls a “madman.” Attackers presumably linked to the Russian government twice hurled chemical dye on him, damaging his vision in his right eye, and in 2020 he collapsed on a plane.
“My personal preference would have been that he stayed with me,” Dasha told me. “But I never questioned his decision to go back.” “He is sort of living vicariously through me, through a college experience in America, which is very fun for him,” she said wistfully.
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