The FT Weekend describes Navalny as a “tireless activist who took on Putin and exposed state corruption”. It says his activities were such an irritation for the Kremlin that, for years, Putin and other senior Russian officials refused to utter his name. In a separate editorial, the paper says that, however Navalny’s death actually occurred, the Russian authorities are morally responsible because, had he not been wrongly jailed, he would surely still be alive.