Show Notes
Last week, the Russian authorities announced that Aleksei A. Navalny, Russia’s most prominent opposition leader and an unflinching critic of President Vladimir V. Putin, had died in a remote Arctic prison at the age of 47.
Yevgenia Albats, his friend, discusses how Mr. Navalny became a political force and what it means for his country that he is gone.
Guest: Yevgenia Albats, a Russian investigative journalist and a friend of Mr. Navalny.
Background reading:
- Who was Aleksei Navalny?
- The sudden death of Mr. Navalny left a vacuum in Russia’s opposition. His widow, Yulia Navalnaya, signaled that she would try to fill the void.
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