Andrei Vyazov was jailed on Feb. 16 in the southern city of Krasnodar, one of more than 400 protesters detained at events across Russia in memory of Alexei Navalny, the Kremlin's fiercest critic who died this month in an Arctic penal colony. Despite the machinery of state working around the clock to snuff out any sign of dissent over Russia's invasion of Ukraine and, more recently, the death in detention of leading dissident Navalny, signs of opposition still flicker. "We are all afraid, but now is the moment when we are in solidarity with each other," said Anastasia Panchenko, a former Navalny staff member from Krasnodar who is now living in Tbilisi, Georgia.
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