An activist who thrived on agitation, he feared irrelevancy in exile. Winning new respect as he continued to lambast the Kremlin from behind bars cost him his life.
With Ukraine’s forces at risk of encirclement, the top military commander ordered a retreat. In startlingly candid accounts, soldiers described disarray and despair.
The president said that while the United States was still gathering information about the Russian dissident’s demise, he would hold President Vladimir V. Putin responsible; but he has limited options.
A straight-talking former real estate lawyer, he stayed relevant even from prison, pleading with Russians not to give up or give in to their fears and railing against the “criminal” war in Ukraine.