Foreign Policy

Famed Russian dissident Alexei Navalny dubs war hawk ‘political prisoner’

By Joel Gehrke
Published July 25, 2023 7:33pm ET
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Famed Russian dissident Alexei Navalny dubs war hawk ‘political prisoner’
Igor Girkin, also known as Igor Strelkov, the former military chief of Russia-backed separatists in eastern Ukraine, sits in a glass cage in a courtroom at the Meshchansky District Court in Moscow, Russia, on July 21, 2023. | (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko, Pool)

Imprisoned former FSB officer Igor Girkin should be regarded as a “political prisoner,” according to Russian dissident Alexei Navalny, despite his culpability for the war in Ukraine.

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Alexei Navalny Russia Russia-Ukraine War Ukraine