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Amy Mackinnon, Amy Mackinnon, Elias Groll, Emily Tamkin

Why Putin Might be Hoping Navalny Survives His Poisoning

Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny arrives on stage to deliver a speech during a demonstration in Moscow on Sept. 29, 2019. Yuri Kadobnov/AFP /Getty Images

Did Vladimir Putin just try to kill one of his harshest domestic critics?

Though it wouldn’t be the first time the Russian president has gone after enemies—his own or his country’s—with lethal precision, analysts say the apparent poisoning of the opposition politician and anti-corruption activist Alexei Navalny doesn’t quite seem like a Putin hit job.

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