Alexei Navalny was brave enough to mock Putin's absurd tyranny. Is it any wonder he is dead? | Simon Tisdall
Briefly

Tyrants and dictators are accustomed to criticism, to being condemned and reviled. The cries of their victims are nothing to them...Yet he's essentially absurd a little man in too big a job.
Was mockery the reason Alexei Navalny, Putin's most vocal and best-known critic, was finally killed? Goodness knows how many times, over many years, this brave campaigner for freedom, democracy, probity and justice has provoked and taunted the corrupt butcher of the Kremlin.
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