ANALYSIS. Putin is sitting on roses. But the fact that Navalny now disappears reveals what he is still afraid of

There is still no sign of life from Alexei Navalny, Russia’s most famous dissident. That can mean a lot: transferred to another prison, fallen ill or even worse. But if something happens to him now, it will make clear what the increasingly untouchable President Vladimir Putin is afraid of. Even if it comes in the form of innocent-looking billboards and QR codes.

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