The Observer view: A year on from his death, Alexei Navalny still shines bright in a dark land | Observer editorial

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

70% : Yet this is the man with whom Donald Trump now wants to be friends.
65% : Principled, charismatic and humorous, the murdered Russian opposition leader was everything Vladimir Putin is not It is exactly one year since Alexei Navalny, Russia's best-known opposition leader and anti-corruption activist, was murdered in an Arctic penal colony by Vladimir Putin's regime.
42% : When Trump calls Putin a "genius" who exhibits great "common sense", does he understand - does he care - that he is dealing with a ruthless killer?
37% : At home, Amnesty International reports, government critics routinely face "arbitrary prosecution, lengthy prison terms, violent attacks committed with impunity, and other reprisals".
27% : When, shattering the western consensus that Putin is an aggressor to be repulsed at all costs, Trump proposes a chummy tete-a-tete on Ukraine, does he have any idea how he is manipulated by this cynical ex-KGB thug?

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