How Navalny became face of resistance

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🗓️ 16 February 2024

⏱️ 57 minutes

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The jailed Russian opposition leader and outspoken Kremlin critic Alexey Navalny has died aged 47 in the Arctic penal colony where he was serving a 19-year sentence, according to the Russian prison service. Correspondent Matthew Chance reports on how Navalny rose to become Putin’s most prominent opponent and what drove him to continue his opposition, knowing the inevitable consequences. Also on today's show: Nina Khrushcheva, Russian Historian / Professor, International Affairs at The New School; Hillary Clinton, Former US Secretary of State / Former US Senate Democrat; Mikhail Zygar, Author, "All the Kremlin's Men" / Author, "War and Punishment"; & Peter Pomerantsev, Author, "This is Not Propaganda" / Senior Fellow, Agora Institute Johns Hopkins University Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:25.7	18 plus, T's and C's apply, exchange fees and fair usage limits apply. Hello everyone and welcome to Amat Four. Here's what's coming up. The Russian
0:38.5	prison service says Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny is dead. We bring you the very latest. And Christiane gets
0:44.7	reaction from former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton at this year's Munich
0:48.9	Security Conference. Plus... The choice is very simple.
0:54.0	You are either scared or you go on.
0:56.0	I chose to go on a long time ago.
0:58.0	I won't give up on my country.
1:00.0	I won't give up on my civil rights.
1:02.0	A thorn in Putin's name. country, I won't give up on my civil rights.
1:04.0	A thorn in Putin's side.
1:05.4	Corresponded Matthew Chance looks back at the courageous life of the anti-corruption
1:09.7	campaigner.
1:11.0	Then, with dissent being quashed inside Russia and all-out war in Ukraine, will delve
1:16.3	into what Navalny's death might mean for the world, with journalist Mikhail Ziger and Peter
1:21.5	Pomeransu. Hello everyone and welcome to the program. I'm
1:39.5	I'm going to the program. I'm Bianna Goldrigga in New York
1:41.6	sitting in for Christiane
1:42.6	Amunfor. It's news that stunned the world. Alexei Nivalny,
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