and was immediately arrested and then almost just as immediately convicted on phony charges and sentenced to two and a half years in a russian penal colony. this year russia has labeled navalny's opposition organization an extremist group and technically that's the same designation that russia gives to isis and al qaeda. not only has putin banned him from standing as a candidate in any russian election, he's banned navalny's whole anti-corruption group from operationing inside russia at all. they're considered to be a terroristic threat, like al qaeda. many of his associates and colleagues have had to flee the country for fear what russia did to navalny will next be done to him. what putin appears to be doing here is that he appears to be learning from what happened after the boris nemtsov assassination in 2015. he's making it so this time there's no next man. there's no next leader. there's no next navalny in this case waiting in the wings to