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Russia’s most significant opposition leader for the past decade, Alexei Navalny, has died in an Arctic Circle jail, the prison service has said. What does that mean for the future of Russia, its opposition movement and its leader, Vladimir Putin?
Russia’s most significant opposition leader for the past decade, Alexei Navalny, has died in an Arctic Circle jail, the prison service has said. What does that mean for the future of Russia, its opposition movement and its leader, Vladimir Putin?
In this special episode of The Global Story, Gabriel Gatehouse speaks to the BBC’s Chief International Correspondent Lyse Doucet, Olga Ivshina from the BBC’s Russian Service, and Francis Scarr, who covers Russian media for BBC Monitoring.
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Today’s podcast was made by Peter Goffin and Miriam Quayyum. The technical producer was Mike Regaard. The assistant editor is Sergi Forcada Freixas and the senior news editor is Jonathan Aspinwall.
ALSO NOTE
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexei_Navalny
- * Lyse Doucet’s Report and condemnation in BBC News
A TANGENTIAL EMAIL COMMENT from Padraig Michael O’Leary in Sri Lanka, 17 February 2024
“Even those who argue that the West mishandled Russia after the fall of Communism will be hard pressed to explain why this sense of grievance has so quickly translated into a desire to extirpate a neighbouring country via a massive land and sea war, declare its democratically elected government to be Nazis, threaten the leaders of Baltic states, question Poland’s autonomy and murder dissidents in London and at home in an endless list of reprisals for daring not to bow to a tyrannical figure in the Kremlin.
I wonder how followers of Mearsheimer (e.g. Dayan Jayatilleka) feel about the death of Navalny.”
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