The Greatest President Russia was denied.
Many wonderful things can be said about Alexei Navalny, but I wanted to choose the most poignant, his having found the perfect partner:
“Yulia has been such a help in this. I didn’t want her to be tormented by all that ‘perhaps they’ll let him out after a month’ stuff. Most important, I wanted her to know I was not suffering here. On her first extended visit we walked down a corridor and spoke as far removed as possible from the cameras wired for sound that are tucked in all over the place. I whispered in her ear, ‘Listen, I don’t want to sound dramatic, but I think there’s a high probability I’ll never get out of here. Even if everything starts falling apart, they will bump me off at the first sign the regime is collapsing. They will poison me.’
‘I know,’ she said with a nod, in a voice that was calm and firm. ‘ I was thinking that myself.’
At that moment I wanted to seize her in my arms and hug her joyfully, as hard as I could. That was so great! No tears! It was one of those moments when you realize you found the right person. Or perhaps she found you.
‘Let’s just decide for ourselves that this is most likely what’s going to happen. Let’s accept it as the base scenario and arrange our lives on that basis. If things turn out better, that will be marvelous, but we won’t count on it or have ill-founded hopes.’
‘Yep, Let’s do it.’
As usual her voice sounded as if it belonged to a character in a cartoon, but she was dead serious. She looked up at me and flapped her eyelashes, at which point I swept her up in my arms, hugging her in delight. Where else could I ever have found someone who could discuss the most difficult matters with me without a lot of drama and hand-wringing? She entirely got it and, like me, would hope for the best, but expect and prepare for the worst.
Yulia laughed and broke free. I kissed her on the nose and felt much better.”
It will be interesting to see what the Navalnys end up doing
The perfect partner for an enterprise where at least one of them would end up dead.
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