Russian President Vladimir Putin had agreed to swap killed opposition figure Alexey Navalny just days before he died. Speaking in Moscow on March 17 following the release of presidential election exit polls, Putin broke his silence on Navalny’s death. The president asserted that he had consented to a prisoner exchange involving Navalny just days before he died. Navalny died on February 16 in corrective colony IK-3, in the village of Kharp in the Russian Arctic. Governments around the world have held the Russian authorities, including Putin, responsible. After describing Navalny’s death as a “s…