Last week, the Russian authorities announced that Aleksei A. Navalny, Russia’s most prominent opposition leader and an unflinching critic of President Vladimir V. Putin, had died in a remote Arctic prison at the age of 47.

Yevgenia Albats, his friend, discusses how Mr. Navalny became a political force and what it means for his country that he is gone.

Guest: Yevgenia Albats, a Russian investigative journalist and a friend of Mr. Navalny.

Background reading: 

• Who wasnavalny-career-russia.html"> Aleksei Navalny?
• The sudden death of Mr. Navalny left a vacuum in Russia’s opposition. His widow, Yulia Navalnaya,death-investigation.html"> signaled that she would try to fill the void.

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