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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
World
Carole Cadwalladr

Navalny didn’t just show enormous courage and express irrepressible hope – he embodied them

Candles and a photo of Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny
Remembering Alexei Navalny at a makeshift memorial in front of the former Russian consulate in Frankfurt, Germany. Photograph: AFP/Getty Images

It will be days if not weeks and months before we know some version of the truth of what happened in a grim Siberian jail to Alexei Navalny, the greatest leader Russia never had.

But, it’s the timing that sent a chill down many people’s spines. Because this wasn’t any old Friday in February. It was the first day of the Munich Security Conference, a key global summit attended by world leaders and the Nato secretary general. And top of the agenda this year is the threat to Nato itself.

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