Opinion: Navalny’s death extinguished the last hope I had for my former home

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Opinion: Navalny’s death extinguished the last hope I had for my former home
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His death, though unsurprising, is devastating, writes Russian emigre Sasha Vasilyuk.

The announcement from the Russian prison service that Alexey Navalny, the most prominent Russian opposition leader, had died in prison at 47, sent ripples throughout the world and reached me in California when I woke up Friday morning. As someone who grew up between Ukraine and Russia, I used to go back to both countries to visit family every year.

As he put it, “In the minuscule chance that Putin died, political prisoners were freed and there was an opportunity to take Russia into a healthier political direction, Navalny was the only nucleus around whom that would have been possible. Now, that nucleus is gone.

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