Conflicts

Alexei Navalny, the main opposition leader to Vladimir Putin, who died in a Siberian prison earlier this year, claimed that the Russian president's regime would "collapse" because it is based only "on lies."

The 47-year-old anti-Kremlin activist posed a real threat to those in power, regularly organizing numerous protests to denounce corruption and abuse of power in Russia.

In his memoir, Patriot, which will be published posthumously on October 22, Navalny wrote that he had come to terms with spending the rest of his life behind bars. Several excerpts from his book were published in The New Yorker this Friday.

"I will spend the rest of my life in prison and die here. There will not be anybody to say goodbye to… All anniversaries will be celebrated without me. I’ll never see my grandchildren," he wrote.

The lawyer was serving a 19-year sentence for "extremism" when he died under troubling circumstances on February 16.

The announcement of his death sparked a wave of international outrage, with many governments accusing Vladimir Putin of ordering his execution.

(QG - Source : Al Jazeera / The New Yorker / Picture: © Pixabay)