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His death was certain the moment he went back to Russia. He should have stayed back in some European country and continued the fight.

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I'm fairly certain he knew this, but did it anyways. If anything, it'll make him a martyr who died in their home country, still fighting, rather than someone who is trying to run away and fueling the opponent's arguments.

Still sucks it had to come to this. But I agree, this wasn't the unexpected outcome.

Unfortunately, a martyr in Western countries only. I doubt his death will be discussed in Russian's media.

It is already being discussed. Also Russian media is not limited to state media.

This is #1 topic in Russia right now. Even some state media outlets report on this.

https://www.rt.com/russia/592561-alexey-navalny-blogger-oppo...

He will be remembered along with other reformers of history who stood up to what they believed and in the end paid with their lives.

I truly hope his death will not be in vain.

I personally think it makes a clown show of Musk and Carlson Putin fan club we have going on, now they're buddies with a murder. I mean Putin has murdered many people, but this one is pretty fresh and seems to hold a lot more weight because of the stature of the victim.

In their eyes it makes Putin more, not less attractive because that's how they view their own little power fantasies: to do away with their enemies, real and perceived.

It's not as if we collectively refused to do business with the murderer (correction, butcher) of a journalist in a f'ing embassy. That stood pretty much unchallenged besides some finger wagging.

I just realized that the Munich Security Conference started today. There is no chance this was an coincidence.

And less than a week after the interview with Putin. The comments section on that video is ridiculous.

Yes. And now he is dead and will be forgotten in a week.

As I mentioned earlier - does anyone remember the guy who flew over Belarus and had his plane redirected to the capital, and he was seized there. He also was a protester, now forgotten. I do not even remember his name and never heard of him since then.

That guy was forced to co-operate with the regime and to abandon his SO, arrested together with him.

Navalny will be remembered, just as Boris Nemtsov is remembered.

I assume you never heard of Roman Protasevich before the plane incident?

Navalny on the other hand has done many notable things and was in the news all the time before his death. His is the first name you think of when you think of Russian opposition. This is not a valid comparison.

I heard about Navalny when he was in Germany because it was newsworthy, and then when he decided to get back to Russia. I have never heard about him before.

Same for Protasevich - it is because his plane was diverted that it made it to the news.

The only time we hear about these people is when they do something visible. I am not saying that this is OK, it is just the sad reality of our world where one news pushes another.

Navalny could have had protested and there would be a chance he would be heard then. When he was in prison it was over until he dies.

The contrast with an earlier Russian revolutionary, Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov, better known as Lenin, bears reflection. Lenin went into exile in Munich, London, and Geneva from 1900--1905, returning to Russia for a 2005 revolution, then living in exile again during the First World War.

Navalny all but certainly was aware of his likely martyrdom, and appears to have won that. I have my doubts that he will be more effective as a martyr than he would have been acting in exile. In addition to whatever organisation remains, he does leave both a wife and daughter, though whether or not they'll carry on his fight I don't know.

The news today is not unexpected, but disappointing all the same.

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