Hello and welcome to the Intelligence on Economist Radio.

I'm your host, Jason Palmer.

Every weekday, we provide a fresh perspective on the events shaping your world.

Africa's vaccination drive is beset by problems both of demand and supply.

In many places, there's vaccine hesitancy.

In others, it could be described as vaccine indifference.

Ultimately, though, there aren't enough vaccines to go around.

And Florence Price was an acclaimed African American composer from the mid-20th century.

But after her death, she and her work were ignored.

That's now changing.

First up, though, a ruling is expected today from a Moscow court that would designate the movement of jailed opposition leader Alexei Navalny as a terrorist organization. On Friday, Mr. Navalny ended a 24-day hunger strike

that had carried him to the brink of death,

as he insisted on being seen by his own doctors.

Across Russia, his supporters had faced arrest as they protested.

In Moscow, they chanted, freedom to Navalny, and let the doctors in.

The United States of Mexico, they chanted, freedom to Navalny and let the doctors in. The increasing repression of those protesters and the threat of rebranding of the opposition as extremists come as President Vladimir Putin's approval numbers continue to sink.

The world wondered last week what he would do with the 100,000 troops

massed at the border with Ukraine.

In the end, they were pulled back.

That saber-rattling and the poll numbers are all intimately connected

to the threat now posed to the group led by Mr. Putin's most effective critic,

Alexei Navalny.

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