#Bestof2021: Consider Wagner Group milblogger Fomin dead by a bomb in Petersburg: Recalling that Putin and the Kremlin are masters of assassination: 1/2: It began with poison. 1/2: Russia's future may be as straightforwardly dramatic as Putin vs Navalny.
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#Bestof2021: Consider Wagner Group milblogger Fomin dead by a bomb in Petersburg: Recalling that Putin and the Kremlin are masters of assassination: 1/2: It began with poison. 1/2: Russia's future may be as straightforwardly dramatic as Putin vs Navalny. (Originally posted April 21, 2021)
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| 0:00.0 | I'm John Bachelorette. This is the new John Bachelorette Show CBS audio network. |
| 0:14.3 | Vladimir Putin, the man declared president as long as he wishes in a recent decision |
| 0:20.1 | in 2020 about extending or removing term limits. However, Vladimir Putin, to read the headlines |
| 0:27.0 | from outside Russia has a rival, his name is Alexei Navalny. That is part of the larger |
| 0:33.4 | news cycle I learned from reading the Economist magazine. And I welcome the Economist magazine's |
| 0:41.0 | Russia Guide, the man who's going to help me understand modern Russia, Arkady Astrovsky |
| 0:48.0 | in London, Arkady, a very good day to you. And the headlines say that Alexei Navalny has |
| 0:55.0 | ended his hunger strike. And yet he remains very weak. The headlines also say that Vladimir |
| 1:00.9 | Putin states security apparatus in some fashion is moving against the nascent Navalny political |
| 1:07.1 | ambitions. The headlines also say that Vladimir Putin is looking for a summit with Joe Biden, |
| 1:14.3 | the new president of the United States. All these things run together. So I want to begin |
| 1:18.5 | with Navalny. What is the measure of his political strength? Do we have a way of judging |
| 1:24.4 | how many people follow him and how many people see his vision for the future for Russia? |
| 1:30.6 | Good day to you. And very good day to you, John. Thank you for having me on your show. |
| 1:37.2 | It is a very important moment both for Russia and for the world, given that Russia continues |
| 1:43.9 | to present a very considerable threat, not list through meddling in the US elections |
| 1:52.4 | and attacking neighbors and still obviously a major nuclear superpower. But let's start |
| 2:03.1 | with Navalny, even though all those things have suggested are actually connected. So in |
| 2:08.3 | terms of how many people follow Navalny or no, Navalny let me put it this way. For the |
| 2:16.1 | majority of Russians, whatever they think of Alexei Navalny, they know there are two |
| 2:21.7 | principle politicians in the country now. One is Vladimir Putin and the other is his |
| 2:27.6 | nanosis and animatic-sane Navalny, who is now in jail. I think the majority, the vast |
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