On December 19, 2003, brothers Juan Paulo and Ian Carl Garcia arrived at San Francisco International Airport off a flight from Manila. Headed through customs, US officials asked them the routine question: “Do you have anything to declare?”
The deeply sad and dark news of Alexei Navalny's death at a Russian prison in the arctic made me remember my own run-in (alongside my former WSJ colleague Jacquie McNish) with Navalny via the private intelligence firm Black Cube.