When Alexei Navalny was alive, the Kremlin sought to portray him as an inconsequential figure unworthy of attention, even as Russian authorities vilified and attacked him with a viciousness that suggested the opposite.
In death, little appears to have changed.
Russian President Vladimir Putin has not said a word in public about Navalny in the two weeks since the opposition campaigner’s death at age 47 in an Arctic prison.