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Good morning, I'm Taylor Wilson and today is Monday, February 19th, 2024. This is the

excerpt. Today what Navalny's death means inside Russia, plus a look at deep fake advertising and the

latest COVID guidance.

More than 400 Russian supporters of the late opposition leader Alexi Navalny have been arrested for paying tributes, some as modest as Lang flowers at impromptu memorials.

The 47 year old critic of President Vladimir Putin died last week in an Arctic prison.

The Russian government says the cause of his death remains under investigation,

while President Joe Biden has blamed Putin for Navalny's death.

For more, I spoke with former USA Today correspondent and current managing editor of the

Harvard Crimson, Miles Harrisonhorn, on the reaction inside Russia to Navalny's passing and what it might mean for the country going forward.

Miles, it's so good to have you back on the show today.

Thanks for dropping on.

Happy to be here. Thank you.

Miles, can you help us better understand who

Nervolni was and his role in Russia? Nervolni is often referred to as the

opposition leader of Russia, which is a very interesting title for somebody who has never actually won a political election.

He's been described by many folks as a political animal, somebody who desperately wanted to be the leader of Russia and viewed himself as a politician.

But he never won an election. In fact, his start really came from being an anti-corruption

blogger who then ended up leading mass protests in 2011 when Vladimir

Putin then Prime Minister of Russia and then President Dimitri Medvedev announced that they would do a switch that would allow Putin to return to the presidency.

So that's when he became really well known.

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