What Navalny’s death means for Putin's Russia
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🗓️ 20 February 2024
⏱️ 33 minutes
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Summary
Alexei Navalny, Russia's opposition leader, is dead. His wife says that President Putin killed her husband while the Russian state denies any involvement. What does his death mean for the opposition, the Kremlin and the future of Russia?
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| 0:29.1 | local branch Privyat, this is a young one. This is Julianne. This is Julianne. |
| 0:44.0 | This is Julianne in the Canal and the |
| 0:45.0 | and what is going to go to |
| 0:50.0 | the This is Julia Navalny. |
| 0:54.0 | This is Julia Navalny. |
| 0:56.0 | I shouldn't be here talking to you. |
| 0:58.0 | Someone else should be in my place. |
| 1:01.0 | But three days ago, he was murdered by Vladimir Putin. |
| 1:04.8 | Yesterday, Alexi Navalny's widow's |
| 1:06.6 | yesterday Alexi Navalny's widow, Yulia, put out a video message to the world. |
| 1:17.0 | Putin killed my children's father. |
| 1:25.6 | Putin took away the most dear thing I have ever had, my closest and most loved man. |
| 1:33.0 | Alexi Navalny was officially reported dead at 2.15 p.m. local time on Friday. |
| 1:47.0 | Two minutes later, the prison service had already put out an official press release. |
| 1:53.4 | Four minutes after that, long before there was any post-mortem, |
| 1:57.7 | a state-controlled channel on telegram |
| 2:00.3 | claimed it was a blood clot that killed him. |
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