Lawfare Archive: Alina Polyakova on the Poisoning of Alexei Navalny
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🗓️ 24 February 2024
⏱️ 37 minutes
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From September 15, 2020: Alexei Navalny is Russia's most prominent dissident, opposition leader, and anti-corruption crusader—and the latest such person to be poisoned by the Vladimir Putin regime, which, of course, it denies. When we recorded this episode, Navalny's condition was improving as he received medical treatment in Germany. To discuss Navalny's career and why Putin chose now to attack him, Benjamin Wittes sat down with Alina Polyakova, President and CEO of the Center for European Policy Analysis. They talked about how Navalny has become such a thorn in the side of the Putin regime, why Putin keeps poisoning people as opposed to killing them by other means, and why the Russians are so ineffective at poisonings when they undertake them.
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| 1:36.0 | on February 16th Russian authorities reported that opposition leader and activist Alexei Navalny died of natural causes while in prison. The circumstances surrounding |
| 1:45.9 | Navalny's death have race suspicions amongst the international community with President |
| 1:50.2 | Biden saying there was no doubt that Vladimir Putin's government was responsible for the dissident leader's death. |
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