<story><title>Alexei Navalny&apos;s lawyers are arrested</title><url>https://www.economist.com/europe/2023/10/19/alexei-navalnys-lawyers-are-arrested</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Darmody</author><text>I have a huge respect for Navalny.&lt;p&gt;They tried to murder him and after spending time in a German hospital he decided to go back knowing that they&amp;#x27;ll imprison him or try to kill him again.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>r721</author><text>&amp;gt;knowing&lt;p&gt;I think the risk was huge (personally I thought 50-70% at the time), but not 99% or something. Also (in my opinion) people don&amp;#x27;t take into account that alternative was irrelevance in exile, just look at what happened with Kasparov&amp;#x27;s popularity inside Russia, and he was a prominent opposition activist in 2011-2012.</text></comment>
<story><title>Alexei Navalny&apos;s lawyers are arrested</title><url>https://www.economist.com/europe/2023/10/19/alexei-navalnys-lawyers-are-arrested</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Darmody</author><text>I have a huge respect for Navalny.&lt;p&gt;They tried to murder him and after spending time in a German hospital he decided to go back knowing that they&amp;#x27;ll imprison him or try to kill him again.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>szundi</author><text>I think he miscalculated the degree of cruelty he’ll experience. Also his move itself could be the trigger as if this cruelty would nit be there, then he would have been a hero winning, not a hero losing. Steps “had to be made”, sadly.</text></comment>