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Was hoping for something regarding how this death benefits Putin whatsoever, especially at the time it occurred. Disappointed, but not at all surprised to see nothing new here. I can think of others who had much more to benefit from Navalny perishing when he did. Parties who are totally dependent on funding bills before Congress at the moment.

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Look at it this way: operations involving something atomic and blamed on Russia didn't work. Killing some poor nobody politician in a Siberian prison and trotting out his widow in Munich was the next best idea. The rest of the world pushes a sigh of relief and considers itself lucky. If only it stops there.

I thought the point was to coincide with new Assange coverage. One has to be careful what megalomaniacal espionage State that cynically abuses judicial processes is being discussed.

This also came out the same day that Ukraine officially withdrew from Avdiivka and a day before the US vetoed a ceasefire in Gaza (and completely buried those stories).

At the same time though, Russia definitely is not reacting to this the way an innocent party would. So even though Navalny's death mostly benefits the West, incomprehensibly it does look like Putin's doing.

The burial detail needs to do a more thorough job. The vetoed ceasefire was in The New York Times and The Washington Post, and on NPR. I didn't hear anything about Adiivka on NPR--we don't listen to it that much, but it absolutely made the papers.

Front page? Or buried where only the junkies will see it?

>Russia definitely is not reacting to this the way an innocent party would

Why would they want to admit that another country was able to assassinate this high profile prisoner in order to undermine them? It's a similar reaction to what happened after the West/proxies blew up the Nordstream pipeline.

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