FILE - Prominent Russian opposition figure and chess champion Garry Kasparov speaks in an interview with The Associated Press at the conclusion of the fifth Vilnius Russia Forum at the Esperanza hotel in Trakai district,some 50 kms (31 miles) west of the capital Vilnius, Lithuania, Friday, May 25, 2018. Alexei Navalny was the most well-known Russian opposition leader and his death in a prison colony has dealt it a heavy blow as President Vladimir Putin’s biggest political foe has been silenced forever. There is no anti-war candidate on the ballot to give Putin even a token challenge in next month’s election for a sixth term, and most of the opposition is scattered abroad in exile, or in prison at home. (AP Photo/Mindaugas Kulbis, File)