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To revist this article, visit My Profile, then View saved stories. It was 6:40 on the morning of August 20, 2020 when Yulia Navalnaya’s phone rang. She wasn’t normally up that early, but she was preparing to go to the airport to meet her husband, Alexey Navalny, the sole remaining leader of the Russian opposition, whose flight from the Siberian city of Tomsk was scheduled to arrive in Moscow at eight that morning. Navalnaya looked at her phone. It was Kira Yarmysh, her husband’s press secretary, who was supposed to be midflight with Alexey. “Yulia, don’t worry,” Yarmysh said. “Alexey has been poisoned, the plane landed in Omsk.” Navalnaya said “okay” and hung up. If the plane carrying her husband had to make an emergency landing 1,700 miles from its intended destination, Alexey’s life must have been in imminent danger. This was it, then. She had been preparing for this moment for a decade, and now it was finally here, pouring in

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