Iron Bars And Iron Feliks
March 01, 2021 12:43 GMT
The URL has been copied to your clipboard
0:00
0:19:29
0:00
Aleksei Navalny has been sent to prison apparently to a facility in the Vladimir region that former inmates describe in chilling terms. Back in Moscow, a vote on whether to return Soviet secret-police founder Feliks Dzerzhinsky s statue to Lubyanka Square or put up a monument to medieval prince Aleksandr Nevsky was abruptly canceled. Irina Lagunina, director of special projects at RFE/RL s Russian Service, joins host Steve Gutterman to discuss.
Pop-out player
share
To receive Steve Gutterman s Week In Russia via e-mail, subscribe by clicking
here. In the coming weeks, we ll be updating the formatting of this newsletter, so don’t be surprised if it looks slightly different. And please check your spam folder if you don’t receive it. If you have thoughts or feedback, you can reach us directly at
There were two iconic moments in the abortive August 1991 coup whose failure hastened the collapse of the Soviet Union three if you count the telling
press conference of the plotters, with self-declared acting president Gennady Yanayev s hands trembling as if he had steeled himself for the spotlight with some vodka shots.