Parallels between Putin’s feud with Navalny and Henry II’s with Becket
Putin’s position is rather similar to that of England’s King Henry II, who ordered the assassination of that martyred cleric by accident, so to speak, and was then covered by shame and regret for his murder (or so he subsequently claimed).
LONDON, U.K.—In 20 years of writing about Russian President Vladimir Putin—he was completely obscure before 1999—I have never before had reason to mention him and Saint Thomas à Becket in the same sentence. Finally, however, the time has come.
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