ON JAN. 1, 2015, ALEXEI Navalny called me. "Well, you and us have no one else left but you and us. Let's work together," he said.
It was indeed a hard time for both him and me. I was editor-in-chief of the Dozhd TV channel at the time, and we were cut off from all cable and satellite operators. But Navalny, who died at 47 on Feb. 16 in a Siberian prison, faced much worse: the criminal case invented to force him to stop his political activities. That time, Alexei was given a suspended sentence, but his brother was imprisoned.
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