Amanpour: Sergey Markov, Marina Litvinenko, Kehinde Wiley and Adam Grant

Amanpour

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🗓️ 2 February 2021

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Sergey Markov, Director of the Institute of Political Studies, joins Christiane Amanpour to discuss Russian opposition leader Alexey Navalny's sentencing to two and a half years in jail. Marina Litvinenko, widow of Alexander Litvinenko, talks about the ongoing protests across the country and the her unique perspective following her husband's death in 2006 that was likely at the hands of President Putin. Artist Kehinde Wiley, best known for his presidential portrait of Barak Obama, discusses spending the last year in his Senegal studio and watching the Black Lives Matter protests in America play out from afar. Our Walter Isaacson talks to Adam Grant, author of "Think Again: The Power of Knowing What You Don't Know" about whether we can unlearn firmly held opinions and beliefs. To learn more about how CNN protects listener privacy, visit cnn.com/privacy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello everyone and welcome to Amampur here's what's coming up.
0:10.0	Fighting for his freedom in court, opposition leader Alexei Navalny says the Russian
0:17.6	president will go down in history as Putin the poisoner.
0:21.9	Hundreds of protesters are locked up and I asked both sides what comes next.
0:26.4	Then, the unique take of artist Kahindo Wiley,
0:30.0	he joins us with new works and a new project from his Senegal studio.
0:34.8	Also ahead.
0:35.6	Our instinct is to become preachers and talk about why we're right.
0:39.3	We're prosecutors and try to make it clear that the other person is wrong, and that just makes them defensive.
0:44.0	Psychologist Adam Grant tells our Walter Isakson how to listen
0:48.0	to reach people you might find beyond the pale. Welcome to the program everyone. I'm Christina Manpur in London. The British,
1:10.4	the European and the US governments are tonight condemning the sentencing of
1:14.4	Alexei Navalny to more than two and a half years in jail.
1:18.2	As the Russian opposition leader awaited the verdict, he drew a heart for his wife Yulia on the glass wall of his
1:24.4	courtroom cage. He was accused of breaking the terms of his parole but Navalny
1:29.4	ridiculed that saying I fell into a coma then I I was in the ICU, then in rehabilitation, I contacted
1:36.5	my lawyer to send you a notice, you had the address, you had my contact details, what else
1:42.0	could I have done to inform you.
1:43.7	Navalny of course fell into that coma after he was poisoned with the nerve agent
1:48.2	Novichok in August and he pins the blame on the Russian president Vladimir Putin.
1:53.5	The Kremlin denies it.
1:55.0	His arrest after recovering in Germany
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