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Poisoning of Alexei Navalny

Leonid Volkov wears a white shirt and raises his hand in the air while speaking in front of a blue and white background.

‘Fighting corruption in Russia is now being called extremism,’ says Alexei Navalny’s top strategist

April 30, 2021Global Politics

Leonid Volkov joins The World from Vilnius, the Lithuanian capital, to give an update on Alexei Navalny’s health status and the future of their political opposition movement in Russia, after being designated as “extremists.”

Close up of Alexei Navalny, a white man with short hair wearing a turtle neck and a few people standing behind him

Nalvany poisoning shows it’s ‘much riskier’ now to stand up to the Kremlin, says investigative reporter

September 15, 2020Global Politics

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