Alexei Navalny believed he would die in Russian prison, memoir reveals

The Russian opposition leader's posthumous memoir traces his final years, including his captivity.

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A fierce critic of President Vladimir Putin, he died in an Arctic Circle jail in February while serving 19 years on extremism charges that were widely seen as politically motivated.

The New Yorker and the Times have published excepts from the book, a posthumous record of Navalny's last years, including those he spent imprisoned.

"I will spend the rest of my life in prison and die here," he wrote on 22 March 2022.

"There will not be anybody to say goodbye to... All anniversaries will be celebrated without me. I'll never see my grandchildren."

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