1/2: #Bestof2021: Eleven months before the attack: foreshadows: 1/2: Russia's future may be as straightforwardly dramatic as Putin vs Navalny. Arkady Ostrovsky, @Economist (Originally posted April 27, 2021)
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1/2: #Bestof2021: Eleven months before the attack: foreshadows: 1/2: Russia's future may be as straightforwardly dramatic as Putin vs Navalny. Arkady Ostrovsky, @Economist (Originally posted April 27, 2021)
https://www.economist.com/leaders/2021/04/24/russias-president-menaces-his-people-and-neighbours?utm_medium=pr&utm_source=us-e
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| 0:00.0 | I'm John Bachelorette. This is the new John Bachelorette Show CBS audio network. Vladimir Putin, |
| 0:16.0 | the man declared President as long as he wishes in a recent decision in 2020 about extending |
| 0:22.7 | or removing term limits. However, Vladimir Putin, to read the headlines from outside Russia, |
| 0:28.8 | has arrived. His name is Alexei Navalny. That is part of the larger news cycle I learned from |
| 0:35.9 | reading the Economist magazine. And I welcome the Economist magazine's Russia Guide. The man |
| 0:43.3 | who's going to help me understand modern Russia, Arkady Astrovsky in London. Arkady, a very good |
| 0:50.8 | day to you. And the headlines say that Alexei Navalny has ended his hunger strike. And yet he |
| 0:57.6 | remains very weak. The headlines also say that Vladimir Putin state security apparatus in some |
| 1:03.3 | fashion is moving against the nation Navalny political ambitions. The headlines also say that |
| 1:10.5 | Vladimir Putin is looking for a summit with Joe Biden, the new president of the United States. |
| 1:16.4 | All these things run together. So I want to begin with Navalny. What is the measure of his |
| 1:22.0 | political strength? Do we have a way of judging how many people follow him and how many people |
| 1:28.0 | see his vision for the future for Russia? Good day to you. |
| 1:33.2 | And very good day to you, John. Thank you for having me on your show. It is a very important moment, |
| 1:39.6 | both for Russia and for the world, given that Russia continues to present a very considerable |
| 1:46.2 | threat, not list through meddling in the US elections and attacking neighbors and still, |
| 1:57.7 | obviously, a major nuclear superpower. But let's start with Navalny, even though all those |
| 2:05.3 | things have suggested are actually connected. So in terms of how many people follow Navalny or |
| 2:12.7 | no, Navalny, let me put it this way. For the majority of Russians, whatever they think of, |
| 2:19.2 | Alexander Valy, they know there are two principle politicians in the country now. One is Vladimir |
| 2:25.6 | Putin and the other is his nanosis and animatix and Navalny, who is now in jail. I think the majority, |
| 2:32.3 | the vast majority of Russian people know who he is. They may not support his platform. |
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