LJ user vadda translates from English into Russian two recent texts about Alexey Navalny, a prominent Russian anti-corruption activist: one text, by Andrew E. Kramer, appeared in the New York Times on March 27 (the Russian translation is here; 266 comments); the other, by Julia Ioffe, was published in the New Yorker (translated here and here). The New Yorker is hosting a live chat with Julia Ioffe about Navalny on Thursday, March 31.