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‘Nothing but lies’: New Navalny memoir foretells collapse of Putin’s regime

Posthumous memoir, Patriot, of Russian opposition leader who died in prison is set to be released on October 22.

Russian dissident Alexey Navalny, who died earlier this year in a remote penal colony, predicted the reign of President Vladimir Putin would eventually “collapse”, describing it as based on “nothing but lies”, according to his posthumous memoir set to be released later this month.

The 47-year-old opposition politician was seen as Putin’s fiercest political foe, who managed to galvanise the country and organise mass anti-Kremlin protests against abuse of power and corruption in recent years.

In excerpts from his book, Patriot, published in The New Yorker magazine on Friday, Navalny had also resigned to the possibility that he would spend the rest of his life in prison and die while in detention.

“I will spend the rest of my life in prison and die here,” he wrote on March 22, 2022.