so today, if you never listen to the podcast, this is a taste of what we do on the podcast. it gives us an opportunity to go longer and deeper with guests. we will share two conversations that i had with two people that were on the forefront of what i think are in some ways the most important story of 2021, which is american democracy on the knife s edge. the first time we have sustained violence, the after math of the insurrection and the attempts by the republican party to put in to place means of stopping future peaceful transfers of power and democratic accountability and the on rush towards a future and a president which the republican parties, two major parties has become essentially anti-deem accurate i can anti-democratic in a pro found way. in the episode tonight, who people have were in the forefront and fighting against the tendancies, one of those sherrilyn ifflin, one of the most remarkable lawyers, legal thinkers, social critics that we have, one of the best v
deputy prime minister under yeltsin. after putin seceded yeltsin, he became a vociferous and fearless critic. 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 since the stalin era. days before russian authorities had thrown one of his key russian allies in jail, another vocal putin critic. nemtsov s friend was put in jail for the high crime of hand being out leaflets. the guy who was put in charge just for handing out leaflets about the march, his name is alexi naflny. he went home and went to visit his grave. and navalny meant it. he 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 kept coming up with n
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So let me ask you this because you were instrumental in getting the magnitsky act passed. it is something vladimir putin is obsessed by, right? he brought up his own retaliation to it, the ban on russian adoptions to the united states with the president at the g-20. in your prepared remarks, you write you have received death threats from russia. the most notable may be from the russian prime minister who said that according to you, quote, it is too bad that magnitsky is dead and bill browder is still alive and free. do you really think that the russian government wants you dead? i know the russian government wants me dead, and i can say there is a number of other people connected to this case who are dead. boris nemsoff, a russian opposition politician who had been lobbying for the magnitsky act was shot in front of the kremlin in 2015. his protoe shea was poisoned