Navalny, Putin, Russia and Ukraine
The Brian Lehrer Show
WNYC
4.6 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 16 February 2024
⏱️ 40 minutes
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Summary
Russian opposition leader, anti-corruption activist and political prisoner Alexei Navalny has died. Masha Gessen, The New Yorker staff writer and the author of Surviving Autocracy (Riverhead Books, 2020), digests this news and offers analysis as Putin's war in Ukraine approaches its second anniversary.
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| 0:00.0 | It's the Brian Laird |
| 0:11.0 | show on WNYC. |
| 0:13.4 | Good Friday morning everyone. |
| 0:15.2 | We'll begin today on the news this morning |
| 0:17.6 | that Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny |
| 0:20.2 | has died in prison, and we've got none other than |
| 0:22.9 | Marsha Gessen from the New Yorker to talk about it with. |
| 0:26.0 | But first on MS NBC's Morning Joe, |
| 0:28.9 | the former US ambassador to Russia, Michael McFarle, |
| 0:32.0 | who served under President Obama and was a personal friend of |
| 0:35.0 | Navalny, had this blunt reaction to the news. |
| 0:39.0 | Putin killed Navalny. |
| 0:41.0 | Let's be crystal clear about that. I don't care about any negotiation, |
| 0:44.8 | you know, investigation, his ill- |
| 0:46.8 | that arrested had him in solitary confinement. He has put him in a cell which was designed to |
| 0:55.0 | and today he is dead. |
| 0:57.0 | Putin killed Navalny and why did he |
| 1:00.0 | because Putin is weak. |
| 1:02.0 | You don't kill people if you're strong. Putin killed |
| 1:07.1 | Navalny because Navalny was the one opposition leader in Russia that Putin |
| 1:12.0 | feared the most. So this is a really tragic day for me |
| 1:15.1 | and it should be a tragic day for anybody who cares about democracy. |
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