Next Year in Moscow | Russia

9: Life and fate

Our series on Russia’s war returns for a bonus episode after it cost the life of Putin’s most prominent opponent

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A year on from our last episode, Alexei Navalny, Russia’s most prominent opposition leader, is dead. Hope for the “beautiful Russia of the future” he imagined from his prison cell in Siberia is all but extinguished. How are the Russians who oppose Vladimir Putin’s war enduring these dark times?

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