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Feb 2024
23m 4s

Alexey Navalny: The interview

Bbc World Service
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Russian authorities have announced the death of one of the country’s most significant opposition leaders Alexey Navalny in a remote penal colony in the Arctic Circle. Stephen Sackur spoke to him in Moscow in 2017 about the risks involved in being a prominent critic of President Putin.

(Photo: Alexey Navalny. Still from his 2017 interview with Stephen Sackur)

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