There was speculation that the sudden death of the imprisoned Russian opposition figure Alexei Navalny could possibly be related to a planned prisoner exchange. Navalny's Anti-Corruption Foundation announced today that shortly before his death, a prisoner exchange was being considered to get Navalny out of prison and into the West.
It would be an irony of fate if Russia's two greatest antipodes - Prigozhin and Navalny - were equally victims of the Kremlin. And it shows once again that Putin knows neither friend nor foe. But only yourself.