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Alexei Navalny’s posthumous memoir delivers a stinging rebuke to Putin | Lloyd Green

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Alexei Navalny , Russia ’s leading dissident, died last February , imprisoned in the Arctic Circle .

His posthumously published memoir is an exhilarating read, writes of family, doubles-down on faith and celebrates the quotidian.

He delivers a stinging indictment of autocracy while embracing Hogwarts and Middle Earth .

Navalny memorizes the Sermon on the Mount in Russian , English , French and Latin .

He ends with a meditation: “My job is to seek the Kingdom of God and his righteousness, and leave it to good old Jesus and the rest of his family to deal with everything else. They won’t let me down and will sort out all of my headaches,” he writes.

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