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Leading

121. Yulia Navalnaya: The Woman Who Could Bring Down Putin

Leading

Goalhanger Podcasts

Politics, Government, News

4.62.7K Ratings

🗓️ 17 February 2025

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Why did Yulia’s husband, Alexei Navalny, return to Russia, knowing he’d be imprisoned? Is there any credible opposition to Putin left? What does the West get wrong about Putin’s Russia?  TRIP Plus: Become a member of The Rest Is Politics Plus to support the podcast, receive our exclusive newsletter, enjoy ad-free listening to both TRIP and Leading, benefit from discount book prices on titles mentioned on the pod, join our Discord chatroom, and receive early access to live show tickets and Question Time episodes. Just head to therestispolitics.com to sign up, or start a free trial today on Apple Podcasts: apple.co/therestispolitics. Instagram: @restispolitics Twitter: @RestIsPolitics Email: [email protected] Video Editor: Josh Smith  Assistant Producer: Alice Horrell Social Producer: Jess Kidson Producer: Nicole Maslen Senior Producer: Dom Johnson Head of Content: Tom Whiter Exec Producers: Tony Pastor + Jack Davenport Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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Hello and welcome to the Restless Politics Leading with me, Rory Stewart.

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And with me, Alistair Campbell.

0:54.6

And today we're joined by Yulia Navalnyer, and she has become a very prominent figure following

1:01.6

the death of her husband, Alexei Navalny, the Russian opposition leader.

1:07.3

And Alexei Navalny has had an extraordinary life which ended in a penal colony in which he died in

1:13.8

very mysterious circumstances, as far as his family's concerned, murdered by Vladimir Putin,

1:20.1

and certainly having been the victim of a Russian chemical attack on a plane earlier, which he barely recovered from in a hospital in Germany.

1:30.6

Just a quick introduction to who Alexei Navalny was to remind people. He was born in Soviet-era-Russia

1:37.3

to a father of Ukrainian descent, trained as a lawyer, entered politics in the early 2000s

1:42.6

with something called the Yablokovati, then became very well known for anti-corruption work.

1:48.0

So he established an anti-corruption foundation in 2011, and one of the things he was very, very quick to do was to use social media.

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