Alexei Navalny: Dissent is dangerous in Russia, but activists refuse to give up - BBC News

Jailed opposition activist Vladimir Kara-Murza refuses to be cowed following the death of Alexei Navalny.

13 hours agoShareclose panelShare pageCopy linkAbout sharingImage source, ShutterstockImage caption, Alexei Navalny died suddenly in a penal colony last weekBy Sarah RainsfordEastern Europe correspondentFollowing the death of the Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny, another political prisoner is trying to keep the hope of change alive - even from behind bars.

"Freedom costs dearly," the opposition activist Vladimir Kara-Murza once wrote to me from a Russian prison cell.

He was quoting his political mentor, Boris Nemtsov, who was murdered in 2015 in Moscow - right beside the Kremlin.

Now Russian President Vladimir Putin's biggest rival, Alexei Navalny, is dead.

The price of political opposition has never been higher in modern Russia or the goal of change so remote.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-68395030

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