Diane’s farewell message
After 52 years at WAMU, Diane Rehm says goodbye.
A memorial for Alexei Navalny in front of the Russian Embassy in Riga, Latvia.
Last week the Russian government announced the death of opposition leader Alexei Navalny, the Kremlin’s harshest and most well-known critic.
For more than a decade, Navalny campaigned against the corruption of Vladimir Putin and his allies. He ran for mayor of Moscow, crisscrossed the country in an attempted run for president, and offered a younger generation a glimpse of a post-Putin Russia.
During that time, he also endured arrests, beatings, and in 2020, a near fatal poisoning. At the time of his death, he was imprisoned at a penal colony in the Arctic on what his supporters say were politically motivated charges.
“Navalny was the plan for the day after,” says Julia Ioffe, longtime journalist who covers Russia and U.S.-Russia relations. Even behind bars, she says, he represented hope for those who opposed Putin’s power.
Ioffe joins Diane on this episode of On My Mind to discuss the life, death and legacy of Alexei Navalny.
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- Julia Ioffe Washington correspondent, Puck News
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