Welcome back to the podcast, Bribed, Swindler, Steele.

I'm Alexander Rogge, and after a short summer break, we're back with a fascinating guest,

Leonid Volkov.

Lannad is the top advisor and chief of staff to first poisoned and now imprisoned, Russian opposition catalyst

Alexei Navalny. Landed was in the IT business and served in local politics before meeting

Navalny and managing his 2013 Moscow mayoral campaign. He's currently working in exile. He faces

charges in Russia but continues the work of the Anti-Corruption Foundation, the FBK.

Landed, thank you for joining me.

Thank you for the invitation.

It's my pleasure.

And it's very important for me to talk about corruption and the related issues because, well,

it's all our fight is about.

How are you doing?

The FBI has been labeled an extremist organization by the Russian authorities in the same category as al-Qaeda.

So there's that absurdity.

But how are you all holding up?

You, Alexei, the FBI team.

I'm quite dangerous now.

Personally, I've been charged six times with different criminal offences.

I'm probably the most wanted criminal by Russia. It makes me feel sure that we are actually on the right track doing the right thing.

Alexei is doing also, well, relatively fine. We are in the situation when absence of bad news means good news. So the condition

is stable. It's not something like bad happening as it was in April this year when he had to go

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