Dhaka, Feb. 24 -- The death of Alexei Navalny cannot but appear as a death of one dissident too many. It has reinforced the view that in Russia under Vladimir Putin a political dissident is a doomed person, whether inside the country or in exile. Their deaths are foretold in chronicles the moment they cross swords with the present autocratic ruler of Russia who seem to be pathologically predisposed towards to those who oppose the system he has put in place after taking power or to him as a ruler. The cases of mysterious deaths of dissidents abroad through poisoning or abortive attempts to do so have been grist to the mill of the rumour about the revival of a totalitarian state in the mould of Stalinist Russia. The death of Navalny, the mo...