And Surrey County council is to hold a referendum on whether to increase Council Taxes by 15 . Government funding cuts, they say, have left it with no other choice. That is it. You up to date. Now on bbc news is time for hardtalk. Welcome to a Special Edition of hardtalk from moscow. Im stephen sackur. For 17 years, one man has dominated the politics of the russian capital. Vladimir putin. Externally, hes projected russian power from ukraine to syria, and internally opposition has been repressed, intimidated and silenced. But not altogether. My guest today is the most prominent leader of russias anti putin opposition, Alexey Navalny. Now, he has committed to Fighting Putin in the 2018 president ial election. But will his defiance cost him dear . Alexey navalny, welcome to hardtalk. Thank you very much for having me here. You have been involved in Opposition Politics of one form or another for almost ten years, maybe more, and itjust seems to me that right now, your position is perhaps
And Surrey County council is to hold a referendum on whether to increase Council Taxes by 15 . Government funding cuts, they say, have left it with no other choice. That is it. You up to date. Now on bbc news is time for hardtalk. Welcome to a Special Edition of hardtalk from moscow. Im stephen sackur. For 17 years, one man has dominated the politics of the russian capital. Vladimir putin. Externally, hes projected russian power from ukraine to syria, and internally opposition has been repressed, intimidated and silenced. But not altogether. My guest today is the most prominent leader of russias anti putin opposition, Alexey Navalny. Now, he has committed to Fighting Putin in the 2018 president ial election. But will his defiance cost him dear . Alexey navalny, welcome to hardtalk. Thank you very much for having me here. You have been involved in Opposition Politics of one form or another for almost ten years, maybe more, and itjust seems to me that right now, your position is perhaps
And Surrey County council is to hold a referendum on whether to increase Council Taxes by 15 . Government funding cuts, they say, have left it with no other choice. That is it. You up to date. Now on bbc news is time for hardtalk. Welcome to a Special Edition of hardtalk from moscow. Im stephen sackur. For 17 years, one man has dominated the politics of the russian capital. Vladimir putin. Externally, hes projected russian power from ukraine to syria, and internally opposition has been repressed, intimidated and silenced. But not altogether. My guest today is the most prominent leader of russias anti putin opposition, Alexey Navalny. Now, he has committed to Fighting Putin in the 2018 president ial election. But will his defiance cost him dear . Alexey navalny, welcome to hardtalk. Thank you very much for having me here. You have been involved in Opposition Politics of one form or another for almost ten years, maybe more, and itjust seems to me that right now, your position is perhaps
For 17 years, one man has dominated the politics of the russian capital. Vladimir putin. Externally, hes projected russian power from ukraine to syria, and internally opposition has been repressed, intimidated and silenced. But not altogether. My guest today is the most prominent leader of russias anti putin opposition, Alexey Navalny. Alexey navalny, welcome to hardtalk. Thank you very much for having me here. You have been involved in Opposition Politics of one form or another for almost ten years, maybe more, and itjust seems to me that right now, your position is perhaps more dispiriting, more depressing than its ever been before. Do you agree . Absolutely not. Actually, ironically, i can call Vladimir Putin as my godfather in politics, because when he came to power and the way he talks and the way what hes saying, what hes doing, the laws hes passing through duma, told me that russia is done with democracy and i should do something, i should join the opposition movement. But, you
well, i think he should be worried about what he did. basically, he direct his private lawyer to circumvent the $2700 campaign finance limit by steering $150,000 there from his private company. it s a corporate contribution. it s over the limit, and it wasn t reported. he seems to be conceding now that these were campaign finance violations. he s trying to make them sound like they re mere technicali technicalities, but it s serious business for people who take the campaign finance laws seriously. of course, there are bigger fish to fry by the special counsel, who has zeroed in on the moscow project, as they re calling it, that is the whole effort to use russian influence in order to undermine our election and to steer the election towards the republicans. i think that s where the bigger problems are going to be for this president. but nonetheless, i think the campaign finance scheme is a very serious one and certainly on the benchmark of republican standards from the past, it would