Navalny vs. Putin: Russia’s David-and-Goliath campaign

Ahead of a March election meant to hand Vladimir Putin a fourth term as president, Alexei Navalny is banned but campaigning anyway. Between arrests.

Russian President Vladimir Putin, left, has long had lawyer and blogger Alexei Navalny, right, to contend with as his political nemesis. UN photograph by Cia Pak, photograph courtesy of VK.com/teamnavalny

Opinion

BY LISA VAN DUSEN

January 31, 2018

Alexei Navalny has been arrested so many times that it’s hard to find the number of times he’s been arrested. The tally gets updated so often that the latest uptick has apparently been ditched from most news copy about him because it could be overtaken by filing time. The Russian opposition lea...

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