Please give me a moment while I climb up on this soap box. A minor rant.
Murdered.
Assassinated.
Killed.
These are the terms we should be using when talking about the death of Alexei Navalny. He didn’t just die, it wasn’t a passive act, it didn’t just happen. Someone in Putin’s government decided that Navalny needed to be killed and made it happen. Sure, they found a way to make it look accidental but so what? I’m tired of the hedging, the “well we don’t know the exact circumstances of his death”, the politeness of trying to not misspeak. News flash, we’ll NEVER know what happened to him. Not with any certainty. Not as long as Putin and his goons control the media and everything else in Russia.
“Putin had Navalny assassinated in Russian prison.”
That’s the headline that needs to be on the news.
Stepping down.