Alexei Navalny is Russia’s most prominent opposition politician and President Vladimir Putin’s harshest critic. Navalny is also lucky to be alive. This past summer, he was mysteriously poisoned. Over the last few weeks, investigative journalists — with help from Navalny himself — have managed to piece together the story of exactly what happened. The World’s Daniel Ofman reports.
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