Jailed Russian opposition figure and outspoken Kremlin critic Alexey Navalny was declared dead by the Russia prison service on Friday.
Mandatory Credit:	Vasily Maximov/AFP via Getty Images

Jailed Russian opposition figure and outspoken Kremlin critic Alexey Navalny was declared dead by the Russia prison service on Friday.
Mandatory Credit: Vasily Maximov/AFP via Getty Images

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Navalny’s death puts a new spotlight on key dividing line between Trump and Biden

The announcement of Alexey Navalny’s death on Friday thrust fresh urgency into the roiling debate in Washington over how forcefully to counter Russia and its president, Vladimir Putin, a question of wide-ranging consequence on which President Joe Biden and his likely opponent Donald Trump have adopted diametrically opposed positions.