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CNN Opinion: February 2, 2024

Is UNRWA past its ‘sell by’ date? I explore some of the options after the main UN agency responsible for Palestinian refugees gets accused of being too close to Hamas

CNN Opinion: Why Putin wants to keep Navalny locked up

The return of Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny home: was it a brave move or a miscalculation?

Michael BociurkiwFebruary 6, 2021Russia, Alexei Navalny, Navalny, CNN, Cnn Opinion, Michael Bociurkiw, democracy, human rights, Putin, Vladimir Putin, GermanyComment

CNN Opinion: Who's standing up to Russia on Navalny poisoning? Not America

With the German government's announcement Wednesday of "unequivocal evidence" that the nerve agent Novichok was used in the poisoning of Russian opposition leader Alexey Navalny, we are once again reminded how a vacuum in global leadership -- notably, in this instance, the silence of the American President -- can potentially open the way for the world's strongmen to reach for the deadliest means to silence their critics.