Putin’s Opposition Ponders a Future Without Aleksei Navalny

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🗓️ 22 February 2024

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Last week, the Russian authorities announced that Aleksei A. Navalny, Russia’s most prominent opposition leader and an unflinching critic of President Vladimir V. Putin, had died in a remote Arctic prison at the age of 47. Yevgenia Albats, his friend, discusses how Mr. Navalny became a political force and what it means for his country that he is gone.

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0:00.0	From the New York Times, I'm Sabrina Tavernisee, and this is the Daily.
0:07.0	Last week, the Russian authorities announced that Alexei Navani, the leader of Russia's opposition movement,
0:15.3	had died in prison at the age of 47.
0:18.8	Navalny was Vladimir Putin's most audacious and relentless critic.
0:23.3	His fight against corruption resonated far beyond liberal Moscow.
0:27.7	And his central message to Russians,
0:30.3	do not be afraid because our fear is their power.
0:34.4	That was how Navalny lived his life.
0:37.2	Thumbing his nose at Putin's regime in the face of poisoning, prison,
0:42.2	and ultimately death.
0:45.3	Today, his friend, Yevgenia Albaas,
0:48.6	on how Alexei Nervani became such a singular political force and what it means for his country that he's gone.
0:57.0	It's Thursday, February 22nd.
1:05.0	Can you hear me?
1:09.0	I can, can you hear me?
1:11.0	Oh, good. Yes.
1:13.0	What's up, you know, late please.
1:15.0	I enjoy.
1:17.0	I'm okay.
1:18.0	I'm okay.
1:19.0	How are you doing?
1:20.0	I don't know how to answer this question to be answered.
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