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FILE - Alexei Navalny is surrounded by journalists inside a plane carrying him back to Russia from the airport near Berlin, Germany, on Sunday, Jan. 17, 2021. Navalny, who was President Vladimir Putin's fiercest political foe, died in a Russian prison on Feb. 16, 2024. Over the last decade, Putin's Russia evolved from a country that tolerates at least some dissent to one that ruthlessly suppresses it. Arrests, trials and long prison terms — once rare — are commonplace. (AP Photo/Mstyslav Chernov, File)