Up Navalny News Today : Breaking News, Live Updates & Top Stories | Vimarsana

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 to...

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 establi...

Set a tone about how important it is for the united states when it comes to human rights in places like belarus, as well as dissident figures like navalny in russian custody? >> 100%, ayman, he should bring it up. and he will bring it up in the context that he's framed it already. we're at a hinge point in history between counties embracing democracy versus autocracies. and he said that democracies have to combine to show that we can deal with the biggest problems of our time. i would point to belarus and say, are they doing a good job dealing with these issues? i don't think so. biden will br...