The posthumous memoir is a bittersweet portrait of Russia’s most prominent opposition figure.
The West’s Alexei Navalny is a sketch joining three data points: his miraculous survival from poisoning, his return to Russia and his death in prison. To Putin, he was another Rasputin who bewitched Russia with the promise of democracy and survived the Kremlin’s attempts to poison, smear and assassinate. Until he didn’t.
Why Russia, he asks, when most other Eastern Bloc countries have emerged more or less functional? He answers with another question, one that became his political platform: why do Russian oligarchs have immense estates when their Polish or Czech counterparts live normal lives? Shut out from conventional politics, Navalny’s ascent becomes a tech story, another Arab Spring transplanted north. Unlike the Chinese government, the Kremlin acted like the sclerotic Arab regimes who never took the internet seriously until it was too late.While moonlighting as a lawyer, Navalny investigates corruption, blogging his findings on. There was no shortage of material in a chaotic epoch where the plundering of state assets by oligarchs was the norm.
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