<story><title>Alexei Navalny has died</title><url>https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/jailed-russian-opposition-leader-navalny-dead-prison-service-2024-02-16/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>BrandoElFollito</author><text>He will be forgotten in a week, at least by the West.&lt;p&gt;Do you remember the guy who flew over Belarus and his plane was redirected to seize him? Any news? I do not even remember his name.&lt;p&gt;Going back to Russia was a stupid move, he could have had much more visibility from the EU.</text></item><item><author>cyrillite</author><text>Martyrdom.&lt;p&gt;Navalny calculated that this process would be watched and documented through to the very end. He hoped that might be significant, perhaps even sufficient.</text></item><item><author>aerique</author><text>I never understood why he went back to Russia.</text></item><item><author>telesilla</author><text>The 2022 documentary &amp;#x27;Navalny&amp;#x27; is important and explains how the anti-corruption campaigner got to that terrible place, being poisoned with a Novichok nerve agent and still deciding to go back to Russia.&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Navalny_(film)&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Navalny_(film)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.youtube.com&amp;#x2F;watch?v=ZF_HsKCWEHw&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.youtube.com&amp;#x2F;watch?v=ZF_HsKCWEHw&lt;/a&gt; (trailer)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>askvictor</author><text>| He will be forgotten in a week, at least by the West.&lt;p&gt;He wasn&amp;#x27;t doing that for the amusement of the West; he was doing it for the Russians.</text></comment>
<story><title>Alexei Navalny has died</title><url>https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/jailed-russian-opposition-leader-navalny-dead-prison-service-2024-02-16/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>BrandoElFollito</author><text>He will be forgotten in a week, at least by the West.&lt;p&gt;Do you remember the guy who flew over Belarus and his plane was redirected to seize him? Any news? I do not even remember his name.&lt;p&gt;Going back to Russia was a stupid move, he could have had much more visibility from the EU.</text></item><item><author>cyrillite</author><text>Martyrdom.&lt;p&gt;Navalny calculated that this process would be watched and documented through to the very end. He hoped that might be significant, perhaps even sufficient.</text></item><item><author>aerique</author><text>I never understood why he went back to Russia.</text></item><item><author>telesilla</author><text>The 2022 documentary &amp;#x27;Navalny&amp;#x27; is important and explains how the anti-corruption campaigner got to that terrible place, being poisoned with a Novichok nerve agent and still deciding to go back to Russia.&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Navalny_(film)&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Navalny_(film)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.youtube.com&amp;#x2F;watch?v=ZF_HsKCWEHw&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.youtube.com&amp;#x2F;watch?v=ZF_HsKCWEHw&lt;/a&gt; (trailer)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jakub_g</author><text>Raman Pratasevich &amp;#x2F; Roman Protasevich.&lt;p&gt;He was pardoned by Lukashenka last year, since then there was little news, but this week he showed up in a video stream. I found out in Polish media, was very hard to find an English article about it, found just one:&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.txtreport.com&amp;#x2F;life&amp;#x2F;2024-02-14-%22i-ve-built-the-right-tactics-%22-raman-pratasevich-answered-journalists--questions-in-the-stream.S113tj5ia.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.txtreport.com&amp;#x2F;life&amp;#x2F;2024-02-14-%22i-ve-built-the-...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;Lukashenka is not better than Putin, many oppositionists are rotting in prisons, but for some reason (young age?) he let Roman go, probably after some devil&amp;#x27;s deal.</text></comment>