The Weekend Intelligence: Life and fate
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The Economist
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🗓️ 2 March 2024
⏱️ 54 minutes
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Summary
A year on from our series Next Year in Moscow, Alexei Navalny, Russia’s most prominent opposition leader, is dead. Hope for the “beautiful Russia of the future” he imagined from his prison cell in Siberia is all but extinguished. The Economist’s Russia editor Arkady Ostrovsky finds out how Russians who oppose Vladimir Putin’s war are enduring these dark times
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| 0:15.7 | Inspired by the outrageously true story. |
| 0:20.7 | You are writing these wicked little letters. Why would I send a letter when I can just say it? |
| 0:24.4 | You dafftles! |
| 0:25.4 | Oh! Critics are calling wicked little letters, the British comedy of the year. |
| 0:30.7 | Language you just used out loud. |
| 0:33.0 | Olivia Coleman and Jesse Buckley are marvelous. |
| 0:37.0 | Oh God, yeah. |
| 0:38.0 | It's an absolute blast. |
| 0:40.0 | It's a direct quote, but what do I know? |
| 0:42.0 | You look like Queen Victoria Shunt. |
| 0:44.0 | Oh, of. |
| 0:45.0 | Wicked Little Letters in Cinemas February 23, rated 15. The Economist. |
| 0:59.0 | Last year on the first anniversary of Russia's invasion of Ukraine, we released the first episode of a series that wound up on a bunch of best podcast lists. |
| 1:08.0 | Next year in Moscow, about the free-thinking Russians who fled their country at the outbreak of war. |
| 1:15.0 | By now, two years after the invasion, it is next year in Moscow, |
| 1:20.0 | and our Landmark series returns to survey the damage that's been wrought within Russia. I was sure he will be released I knew a little bit about negotiation I didn't |
| 1:47.4 | knew exactly what's going on but I knew that there is some negotiations. |
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