Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - BBCNEWS - 20210611:03:48:00
Why did you not have strong contact with navalny before that? well, on that front, i think navalny very much wanted to be his own man. he said he didn't want to be the kind of russian opposition figure who turned up in washington and met with people and testified in front of congress. part of his concern, and i get this, navalny could speak to that voter in russia who supported putin, because he shared some of the same grievances about how the cold war ended and what happened in the �*90s with what was perceived as a corrupt sell—off of the soviet union's state assets. but i will say, you'...