https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2024/02/17/navalny-friendship-activism-heroism-mcfaul/“Vladimir Putin killed my friend Alexei Navalny this week. There will be a time and place to discuss the politics and how the free world should respond. The Alexei Navalny I knew was super smart. Navalny dreamed of a free Russia. I do not know when, but I am confident that Navalny’s ideas of freedom will outlive Putin’s ideas of tyranny.”

Source: Washington Post February 16, 2026 20:02 UTC