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Bono Pays Tribute to Alexei Navalny During U2’s Sphere Residency
Bono paid tribute to the late Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny during U2's residency at the Sphere on Saturday.
As fan video footage showed, Bono began by speaking about busking in a Kyiv subway in Ukraine a couple of months before Russian President Vladimir Putin invaded the country. “Next week it’ll be two years since Putin invaded and tried to destroy the hard-won freedoms” of the Ukrainian people, Bono said. Navalny was detained by Russian authorities on what are widely regarded as fabricated charges of corruption intended to silence his criticism of Putin.
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