Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny’s death on Feb. 16 did not come as a surprise for those familiar with Russian politics. Navalny was Russian dictator Vladimir Putin’s main opponent, and the Kremlin had used all the tools at its disposal to shut him up. He was sentenced in several fabricated criminal cases, and some of his allies have also been imprisoned. In 2020, investigative journalists published evidence that Russia’s Federal Security Service was behind an assassination attempt on Navalny. He survived then but the final reckoning came after Navalny was sent to a penal colony in the…