Navalny didn’t just show enormous courage and express irrepressible hope – he embodied them | Carole Cadwalladr

The Russian opposition leader's final message - to be scared of nothing' - should be heeded by the west following his death

It will be days if not weeks and months before we know some version of the truth of what happened in a grim Siberian jail to Alexei Navalny, the greatest leader Russia never had.

But, it's the timing that sent a chill down many people's spines. Because this wasn't any old Friday in February. It was the first day of the Munich Security Conference, a key global summit attended by world leaders and the Nato secretary general. And top of the agenda this year is the threat to Nato itself.