Michael Ray
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Michael Ray earned a B.A. in history from Michigan State University in 1995. He was a teacher in the Chicago suburbs and Seoul, South Korea, prior to joining Britannica as a freelancer in 2000. Hired as a full-time copy editor in 2003, he currently works as an assistant managing editor leading the Geography and History team.
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Aleksey Navalny was a Russian lawyer, anti-corruption activist, and politician who achieved international recognition as one of the most prominent domestic critics of Russian Pres. Vladimir Putin (1999–2008, 2012– ). Navalny, who suffered a near-fatal poisoning in 2020, was jailed on several…
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