Opposition figure and anti-corruption activist Alexei Navalny was murdered ahead of a planned high profile prisoner swap, his supporters announced on February 26 to “take that bargaining chip off the table.” Maria Pevchikh, head of Navalny’s Anti-Corruption Foundation, said in a video statement that an offer was made to President Vladimir Putin in early February to exchange FSB-linked Vadim Krasikov, who was convicted in Germany for a the so-called Tiergarten assassination and given a life sentence, for Navalny and two American citizens. ‘I received the confirmation that negotiations were at t…