Hello and welcome to the political party. Today's guest is Vladimir Ashekoff, executive

director of the Anti-Corruption Foundation that he set up with Alexey Navalny, who of course

is still imprisoned in Russia. This is a phenomenal vital conversation about the reality of Putin's

Russia, what's happening in Ukraine, Britain's involvement in various regards, and just Vladimir's

brave, persistent campaigning for freedom and against Vladimir Putin. Before we come onto

the interview, thank you so much to all of you that have come to my gigs recently.

They're noting of night. I've never experienced a gig like that in my life, so thank you to

all of you who came. That was a very, very special atmosphere. And I'm still on tour

of clients that have to be jugged to the right, goes to York and Leeds above Sold out, and

then it goes to Canterbury, Exeter and a few more, and London run at the Soho Theatre.

Some of those shows have sold out, but go to mat4.com. For those tickets and tickets to the

political party live where my next guest is Lisa Nandy, a time when the Labour leadership

is under the microscope in the news consistently. It'd be great to hear from Lisa Nandy, the

shadow secretary is taking for leveling up. Of course, former shadow foreign secretary,

and someone who stood for the Labour leadership last time, someone tipped a stand for the

Labour leadership next time, who knows when that may be? Durham police now hold that time

table in their hands perhaps. So that may have taken on a more urgent nature by Monday.

My guest two weeks after that is we're streeting, Dennis Garry Neville, Dennis David Davis,

Dennis Lindsay Hoyle. So it's a mega run of guestging it to get for all of those shows

at mat4.com and tickets for the tour as well. On then to Vladimir Asherkov, he's an incredible

individual, someone who has incurred, I guess hardship in a way that his life has been fundamentally

changed by his decision to speak up about Vladimir Putin and the reality of that regime.

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