What Navalny Meant (Robert Wright & Nikita Petrov)

Robert Wright's Nonzero

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🗓️ 20 February 2024

⏱️ 65 minutes

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2:19 Nikita’s memories of Navalny’s emergence as a political force 12:17 The time Nikita was detained for protesting election fraud 23:42 Navalny’s success as a political organizer 36:53 What did Navalny represent? 47:22 Navalny’s courageous post-poisoning return to Russia 57:53 Heading to Overtime (plus: Nikita’s photo with Navalny)

Robert Wright (Nonzero, The Evolution of God, Why Buddhism Is True) and Nikita Petrov (psychopolitica.substack.com). Recorded February 20, 2024.

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0:00.0	You're listening to Robert Wright's Non-Zero Podcast.
0:33.7	Hi, Nikita.
0:35.6	Hey, Bob.
0:36.6	How you doing?
0:39.0	Complicated question. Well, Bob. How are you doing? Complicated question.
0:40.7	Well, we're going to get into that and the sources of the complication.
0:45.8	Let me introduce this.
0:47.1	I'm Robert Wright, publisher of Non-Zero News That Aren't Substack.
0:51.0	This is the Non-Zero podcast.
0:53.1	You're Nikita Petrov.
0:54.5	You used to work with me at the Non-Zero podcast. You're Nikita Petrov. You used to work with me at the non-zero media empire, but then you went off to found a media empire of your own.
1:04.4	I know you're not a fan of Vladimir Putin, but one thing you share with him is your imperialist aspirations.
1:10.4	And so your media empire is called
1:14.7	Psychopolitica. It's a newsletter on substack. People should check it out. It's unlike any other
1:19.6	newsletter that I'm aware of. I think I can I can guarantee people that they'll agree after they
1:27.2	check it out.
1:29.4	And we are going to talk about Alexei Navalny from, I think, a pretty unusual perspective,
1:38.0	or at least a perspective that you haven't exactly seen in the mainstream coverage of his death last week.
1:44.9	So you lived in Russia until right after the invasion of Ukraine, you left.
1:52.0	You're now in Spain.
1:53.3	And you kind of came in, came of age in the Navalny era in a way and were very influenced by it.
2:01.6	You participated in political demonstrations that were Navalny inspired Navalny related.
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