Back in 2013, when Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny was facing bogus criminal charges, I recalled my great-grandfather, Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev, comparing Russia to a tub full of dough. ‘You put your hand down in it, down to the bottom,’ and ‘when you first pull out your hand, a little hole remains.’ But then, ‘before your very eyes,’ the dough returns to its original state—a ‘spongy, puffy mass.’ Navalny’s death in a remote Arctic penal colony more than a decade later proves that little has changed.
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