as is their motive. mr volkov has lived outside russia for some years for his own safety and served as mr navalny s chief of staff until the opposition leader died suddenly in prison in the russian arctic last month. speaking earlier on the day he was attacked, mr volkov highlighted the threats navalny s team were facing by standing up to vladimir putin. that s why putin launches all these criminal cases and poisons and killings etc, indeed to push people out of the country where it is very complicated for them to stay relevant. matthew sussex is senior fellow of central european studies at the australian national university, he gave his take on the situation. regardless of who was directly responsible for beating up leonid volkov, the message that it sends will be a fairly common one for those who follow russian politics. and that is, if you are an opponent of the putin regime, as leonid volkov through his relationship with mr navalny most certainly was, it is possible for y
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thanks to our viewers for watching erin burnett outfront starts right now. outfront next, did putin kill alexey navalny to thwart a prisoner swap? navalny s aides making that bold accusation tonight, a russian investigative journalist and longtime navalny friend is outfront with more plus an exclusive kfile investigation revealing an alleged architect of trump s fake elector scheme. brand secret twitter account directly contradicting what he was telling investigators. and a race against time for donald trump. can you get behalf of billion-dollars he now owes the state of new york and 30 the days or less. let s go outfront and good evening. i m erin burnett outfront tonight, speaking out on the verge of a prisoner swap. alexey s alexey navalny s closest allies tonight is claiming that a deal to swap navalny and to americans for one of putin s most wanted assassins was ready to go. when navalny suddenly died in a russian penal colony. now in the booth symptom to putin