Daily: PUTIN’S NEMESIS? Navalny’s Big Gamble, with Luke Harding

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🗓️ 12 February 2021

⏱️ 25 minutes

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When opposition figurehead and recovered Novichok target Alexei Navalny flew back to Russia to lead democracy protests, he took an enormous personal risk, of which instant imprisonment was only a part. Could Navalny’s mix of street demos and slick social media mockery really destabilise Putin’s regime? Luke Harding, author of Shadow State : Murder, Mayhem and Russia's Remaking of the West, explains the background to Navalny’s gamble… and the meaning of the casino, nightclub and “aqua-discotheque” in ‘Putin’s Palace’. “Navalny shone a light on corruption – not just by Putin, but his friends.” “Navalny’s return to Russia was one of the bravest things I’ve ever seen.” “Putin is a dictator. It’s a tired old show that Russians are tired of watching.” “Navalny’s popularity is clearly growing. If you can get people to protest in minus fifty, you must be cutting through.” Presented and produced by Andrew Harrison. Assistant producers: Jelena Sofronijevic and Jacob Archbold. Music by Kenny Dickinson. Audio production by Alex Rees. The Bunker is a Podmasters Production See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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1:22.7	Russia is being convulsed by some of the most serious pro-democracy protests in its recent history.
1:27.8	All triggered, at least in part, by the return to Russia and subsequent highly questionable trial of key opposition figure and recovered
1:34.6	Novichop target Alexi Navalny. On his return to Russia, Navalny was sentenced to two years
1:39.1	eight months in a prison colony for violating probation terms of a conviction in 2014 which he claims was
1:44.5	politically motivated. Now Russia's prisons are reported to be packed after weeks of
1:48.6	arrests at violent protests. Poland, Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania are demanding sanctions against Russia over this, and Putin
1:54.8	has expelled diplomats from Germany, Sweden and Poland for allegedly attending the protests.
1:59.3	What is going on? Is Vladimir Putin long the most immovable figure in world politics? Finally, on is
2:03.0	moveable figure in world politics finally teetering to help explain and joined by Luke
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