Will Navalny’s death motivate the US to act in Ukraine?
KCRW's Left, Right & Center
KCRW
4.2 • 4.8K Ratings
🗓️ 23 February 2024
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Summary
Mourning continues after the death of Alexei Navalny, a Russian opposition leader and one of Vladimir Putin’s most vocal critics. Navalny, who returned to Russia in 2021 following an attempted poisoning, died in a remote prison last Friday. His widow Yulia vowed to take up his cause and urged the international community to join her as she seeks justice for her husband’s death. Will Putin tightening his hold on power in Russia motivate more direct support for Ukraine from the United States?
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the left right and center everybody I'm David Green so I'm just wondering are you |
| 0:05.2 | Sick yet of joking with your friends about how the world feels like it's totally falling apart |
| 0:10.0 | I mean honestly things do feel pretty bleak right now so it's worth those |
| 0:14.6 | conversations we've seen this rise in global conflict it's been a slow crawl |
| 0:20.1 | towards economic recovery this there's climate change, angry politics, and I'm not |
| 0:26.6 | going to suggest that our little show can change a whole lot but at least we can |
| 0:31.0 | sit together and talk through some things |
| 0:32.9 | and talk about ways that people are trying to find solutions |
| 0:36.2 | and make things feel a little less bleak. |
| 0:39.2 | And I want to start in a country that right now feels as dark as ever and that is Russia. |
| 0:45.6 | You know, I actually lived there from 2009 to 2012 |
| 0:48.9 | and I remember this glimmer of hope, |
| 0:51.2 | this feeling that a pro-democracy movement was building inch by inch and |
| 0:58.6 | might one day challenge Vladimir Putin or at least bring some new ideas and some different energy once he was gone. |
| 1:05.0 | But now the person who was galvanizing that optimism is gone. |
| 1:09.0 | Alexei Navalny, who was 47 years old, died in a remote Russian penal colony. He had survived a |
| 1:17.1 | previous attempt on his life by poisoning in 2020 but didn't survive this time. |
| 1:22.0 | Alexei Navalny was this symbol of hope for those who were dreaming of a Russia without Putin and now those people were really feeling the despair but one hopeful voice has emerged in |
| 1:36.9 | recent days and it's that of Navvani's widow Yulia. |
| 1:39.9 | I mean I need to be able to this |
| 1:42.0 | a mess. I don't know what to be the best, I not |
| 1:43.7 | to be able to be the city, but my own |
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