News Snapshot:
Russian President Vladimir Putin has in the last two years caused the death of hundreds of thousands of people, from innocent civilians in Ukraine to the poorly trained conscripts he uses as cannon fodder in his war of aggression. Yet through it all, Alexei Navalny sat in prison — alive. Putin feared Navalny enough to jail him but feared even more what would happen if he killed him. Watching support for Ukraine dwindle in the US Congress and the Ukrainian supply of weapons dwindle on the battlefield, Putin likely decided he had no more to fear from eliminating Russia’s living...