News update: On Friday, Russian state media said that Aleksei Navalny has died in prison. In 2003, four years into President Vladimir Putin’s tenure and with liberal politics at a nadir, I visited the Moscow office of the center-left Yabloko Party. It was Aleksei Navalny. Russia now has two national leaders: Mr. Putin in the Kremlin and Mr. Navalny in prison. And at comings together of opposition figures, united in their disagreement with Mr. Putin if little else, I would often see my old acquaintance Aleksei Navalny.

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