In Moscow's Shadows 19: The Navalny Hit (after the Bellingcat/Insider report)

In Moscow's Shadows

English - December 15, 2020 17:00 - 25 minutes - 17.4 MB
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Previous Episode: In Moscow's Shadows 18: Life in the Communist Party? And Three Random Stories

Next Episode: In Moscow's Shadows 20: Spooks: more Navalny, will the FSB change tack, and did the SVR carry out a 'cyberattack'?

An impressively detailed investigation by Bellingcat and The Insider meticulously details the Russian Federal Security Service operation against Alexei Navalny, so here is a short podcast episode devoted to this case and some implications.

The report is available here, and Navalny's video on it here. My hot take in the Moscow Times is here, any my October piece about General Smirnov is here. Finally, I discussed the poisoning through the prism of 'hybrid war' in this article.

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