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The well-known Russian opposition figure Alexei Navalny was posthumously awarded the Dresden International Peace Prize on Sunday. His widow Yulia Navalnaya accepted the award on his behalf, which is endowed with €10,000 ($10,774), at the eastern German city’s Schauspielhaus theatre. Former German president Joachim Gauck honoured the man who died in prison almost three months ago as a “selfless, almost superhumanly courageous man who shows that there can be another Russia.” Navalny’s life’s work is “a monument, he remains a role model for all those who believe in freedom and dignity, including …

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