The Moscow I Left Behind

By Michael Willard

When Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny was arrested this time, he came up with a mysterious allergy in prison which one doctor suggested was poison. This led folks like me to wonder about his future as a breathing, upright citizen.

It is a fear I have had since huddling with Navalny in a Moscow hotel in 2013 to help prepare him in his very long-shot bid to upset President Putin’s…