Alexei Navalny winning Nobel Peace Prize could be a big blow to Vladimir Putin
grew as he appeared to grow more frail. He ended the hunger strike at the end of April after 24 days.
Navalny's key ally Vladimir Ashurkov said recognition by the Nobel committee would send out a message those under the yoke of regimes elsewhere. Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny appears on screen via a video link from prison during a court hearing, at a court in Petushki, outside Moscow, on May 26, 2021. Although in prison, he remains a key opposition figure in Russia.The New Yorker
"The episode early in 2021 with Amnesty International first designating Navalny a prisoner of conscience, then withdrawing it, and finally reinstating it, shows the difficulties of labelling and awarding people with complex pasts," he told"And yet, the episode also tells us about the perhaps unrealistic expectations for awardees to be morally pure, uncomplicated figures."
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