"Putin's overt attempt to destroy a political opponent has a logic: If Navalny is showing his countrymen how to be courageous, Putin wants to show them that courage is useless."
Navalny Has a Lesson for the World
The Russian opposition leader is showing what courage means.
Staff writer at The Atlantic
When Alexei Navalny boarded a plane to Moscow on January 17, he turned his life into a metaphor. He knew it, his wife knew it, and everybody else on the plane knew it. So did the millions of people who had watched his documentary videos, who had seen the witty interviews he did on the plane, who have since joined demonstrations in his name. So did the leaders of Russia, including the country's dictator and president, Vladimir Putin. This, Navalny was telling all of them, is what courage looks like.
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