numbers. i bring this up now almost a full year after these demonstrations in russia because this happened at the beginning of the year and this ended up being kind of an appropriate first course for the year that we have had since. this has been a hard year. it has been a scary year at times. stuff we ve covered here on this show over the last 12 months has only very rarely been good news. but what we ve also been able to cover this year is people standing up in remarkable numbers, in remarkable ways, against remarkable adversity, people standing up for what they think is right, standing up for democracy. people standing up against tyrants and against abuse and violence by the state, violence by police. and we saw it certainly in very dramatic form in russia. but we haven t just seen it in russia. wechblt just seen it against putin. we ve really seen it everywhere. over the course of the last year, i think it remains one of the most undercovered things
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finger right in putin s eye. navalny and his group flew drones with cameras on them over huge luxurious properties that somehow ended up in the possession of russian government officials who at least on papers had very modest salaries and no legitimate means to acquire these mansions and these wineries and these gigantic yachts. navalny s group tracked the secret mistresses and secret second families of high ranking putin administration officials linking them to organized crime figures and to yet more unexplained wealth. they exposed putin s own secret palaces which had never been disclosed to the russian people. palaces for which there was no public accounting at all as to where the money came from to build these monstrosities. the last putin-palace video was the most watched video of the year in 2021 in russia, according to youtube. the putin government has not appreciated any of it, as you
he had been deputy prime minister in russia under yeltsin. after putin seceded yeltsin, he became a vociferous and fearless critic. of vladimir putin. in february of that year, february of 2015 he was planning an opposition march to protest against the putin regime. it was two days before that he was shot four times in the back when he was walking across the bridge. press reports at the time called it the highest profile assassination in russia since the stalin era. and he wasn t the only target. days before he was assassinated, russian authorities had thrown one of his key political allies in jail. another vocal putin critic who had worked alongside boris nemts o , v s. nemtsov s friend was put in jail
for the high crime of handing out leaflets. the guy who was put in charge just for handing out leaflets about the march, his name is alexei navalny. here he is leaving jail after boris nemtsov s death. reports say navalny left jail that day, he went home, he took a shower and then he went straight to visit boris nemtsov s grave. this act of terror has not achieved its goal. alexei navalny became the biggest, loudest, most charismatic pushiest opposition leader in russia. he vowed to run for president himself to unseat putin. navalny built up an irreverent, creative, forward thinking, nimble opposition movement that among other things kept coming up with new, unexpected ways to expose corruption in the putin government, to keep poking his
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