Leonid volkov in lithuania, welcome to hardtalk. We need to begin, i think, by establishing what kind of contact you have with Alexei Navalny right now. Do you have any means of contacting him . Now the only way to contact him is that his lawyers, not even the relatives, but the lawyers are allowed to visit him two or three times a week and they dont enjoy privacy during those visits. So its like supervised contact, but still, we manage at least to pass some basic information about, like, whats going on. But to tell that alexei is now orchestrating the protests from his cell is a little bit too much. He actually isnt able to do it. But his political structure, the structure he has built that im now managing, is capable of, at least for some time, of keeping pace, of running forward, along with the directions we discussed with him when he left berlin for moscow a week ago. What kind of condition is he in . Because im mindful that he recovered from a Near Death Experience with the novich
Welcome to hardtalk, im stephen sackur. Russian Opposition Leader Alexei Navalny is the most resilient opponent Vladimir Putin has everfaced. Navalny survived attempted assassination by novichok, returned to russia and is now orchestrating anti putin protests from his prison cell. My guest is navalny s Chief Of Staff leonid volkov. The Opposition Movement has supporters willing to take to the streets in hundreds of russian towns and cities, but do they have a strategy capable of forcing putin from power . Leonid volkov in lithuania, welcome to hardtalk. We need to begin, i think, by establishing what kind of contact you have with Alexei Navalny right now. Do you have any means of contacting him . Now the only way to contact him is that his lawyers, not even the relatives, but the lawyers are allowed to visit him two, three times a week and they dont enjoy privacy during those visits. So its like supervised contact. But still, we manage, at least, to pass some basic information about, l
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The green. Is the is really. Something. They historic breakthrough. With in palestine. Around the clock across the world this is r. T. International from the team and myself you know neal hello and welcome. Russias foreign minister has held a phone call with his german coach apart to discuss the situation involving alexina. Urge for the issue not to be politicized he also once again stated that moscow wants to cooperate on the matter previous attempts failed something that led to the Foreign Ministry itself issuing this statement. Any further from satisfying the stated requests will be perceived as a lack of desire on the part of our partners to help establish the truth in the framework of comprehensive investigation of what happened. Well the alleged nerve agent poisoning of the russian opposition figure was high on the agenda of a European Parliament session earlier on choose that the vast majority of speakers pointed the finger of blame squarely on russia a low no weapons was presen
Protesters with criminal charges. Exiled Opposition Leader vows to return what is safe. Also when is safe. Joe biden accepts the nomination for the presidency, promising to end the season of darkness in america. It is a great honor and with humility i accept this nomination for president of the United States of america. The Vice President urges americans to return to optimism. And a tale of heroism in the wreckage of beirut, a nurse holds newborn babies rescued from the porch explosion and tells dw what happened port explosion and tells dw what happened that day. I am phil gayle. Welcome to the program. Russian doctors will allow Alexei Navalny to be flown to germany for treatment. This after he fell ill on a flight to moscow and was taken to a hospital in omsk where he is in a,. He is suspected to be poisoned. Doctors initially said he was too ill to be moved, but they changed their minds after a german team deemed him fit to fly. He will leave in the next few hours. We took the decis