Another brave voice against Putin's cowardice
This week, Chris Hughes meets the man campaigning for a prisoner swap
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It is impossible to imagine how Alexei Navalny suffered in the years before his death in one of Russia’s most brutal penal colonies.
But his family and supporters may gain some comfort from the possibility that he knew his passing would take Russia a step further towards his life’s goal.
That aim was to cleanse Russia of a regime that his courageous widow Yulia has said is tearing apart the country that she and her husband loved dearly.
Her words are a true rallying cry, urging Russians to back her "to share not only the grief and endless pain that has enveloped and gripped us, but also my rage".
And then that stirring proclamation: "The main thing that we can do for Alexei and ourselves is to keep fighting. ... We all need to get together in one strong fist and strike that mad regime."
Navalny’s smiling courage has been an inspiration to others and one British-Russian man has already stepped forward many times to take up the fight, again from behind bars.
His name is Vladimir Kara-Murza, a 42-year-old Russian journalist who came to the UK and acquired citizenship in his teens, filing reports back to the press in the motherland.
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