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The Intelligence from The Economist

The Weekend Intelligence: One day in the life of Alexei Navalny

The Intelligence from The Economist

The Economist

Daily News, Global News, News

4.53.7K Ratings

🗓️ 17 February 2024

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

When Alexei Navalny flew back to Russia in 2021 he never made it through passport control. In an excerpt from Next Year in Moscow, The Economist’s series on Russian opposition to the war, today’s episode chronicles this period of his life. It’s an account of what turned out to be the last three years of Navalny’s life - peppered with his own words, and told by people who knew him well.

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Sometimes you don't know how the story ends. That's not just a philosophical statement or

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some figurative musing to start your weekend. I mean practically in journalism sometimes you do not know how the story that you're working on will end

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When you're out reporting making a record of things as they happen, you might understand where things began, you may even

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know why things began, but you might just be in the middle.

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Where do things end?

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You don't know. It hasn't happened yet.

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Today on the weekend intelligence,

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a story told from the middle that has now found its end.

1:29.0

Yesterday morning, Alexei Navani, Russia's number one opposition politician, died in prison.

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The facts about his death may never be fully known, but we do know that in the last few months of his life he'd been moved to a remote

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