When Alexi Navalny died in a Russian penal colony, Russia’s greatest hope for regaining its once-budding democracy died with him. He could have been one of the world’s great leaders, and he was sometimes paralleled to Nelson Mandela in South Africa. But instead, Putin got rid of the greatest threat to his mafia-style dictatorship by letting Navalny gradually die in prison. Though a long-time anti-corruption activist and democratic leader in Russia, early in his imprisonment, Navalny became a follower of Christ. And he quoted Jesus’ words from the Gospel of Matthew in his courtroom rebukes of Putin. This man uncovered Putin’s…