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Alexei Navalny in Berlin in 2020, surrounded by his wife and two children. Getty Images hide caption

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Opinion: Navalny's spirit and legacy live on

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Friday

Protesters light candles on Friday in front of the Russian Embassy in Prague after the announcement that the Kremlin's most prominent critic, Alexei Navalny, had died in an Arctic prison. Milan Kammermayer/AFP via Getty Images hide caption

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A man holds a poster with a portrait of opposition leader Alexei Navalny during a protest in front of the Russian Embassy in Berlin on Friday. Navalny, who crusaded against official corruption and staged massive anti-Kremlin protests as President Vladimir Putin's fiercest foe, died Friday in the Arctic penal colony, Russia's prison agency said. Markus Schreiber/AP hide caption

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Alexei Navalny is seen in 2012 behind the bars in a police van after he was detained during protests in Moscow a day after Vladimir Putin's inauguration. Sergey Ponomarev/AP hide caption

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Alexei Navalny, Russian politician who opposed Putin to the end, has died in prison

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Thursday

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Russian activist Vladimir Kara-Murza attends a conference of Russia's leading rights group Memorial in Moscow in October. Alexander Nemenov/AFP via Getty Images hide caption

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Wednesday

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Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny gestures while speaking to the media as a security officer guards an entrance of the Anti-Corruption Foundation office in Moscow, Russia, Thursday. The federal court bailiffs' service that conducted the Thursday raid later said he had not been detained. Alexander Zemlianichenko/AP hide caption

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Wednesday

Russian opposition candidate and lawyer Lyubov Sobol stands in front of police during a demonstration in Moscow on July 14. This summer's wave of opposition protests has pushed Sobol to the forefront of the Russian political scene. Pavel Golovkin/AP hide caption

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'The Government Is Very Afraid': Meet Moscow's New Opposition Leader, Lyubov Sobol

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