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Alexei Navalny: The death of Putin鈥檚 biggest critic

What the reported death of the jailed opposition leader means for Russia.

Russia's most significant opposition leader for the past decade, Alexei Navalny, has died in an Arctic Circle jail, the prison service has said. What does that mean for the future of Russia, its opposition movement and its leader, Vladimir Putin?

In this special episode of The Global Story, Gabriel Gatehouse speaks to the 大象传媒鈥檚 Chief International Correspondent Lyse Doucet, Olga Ivshina from the 大象传媒's Russian Service, and Francis Scarr, who covers Russian media for 大象传媒 Monitoring.

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Today鈥檚 podcast was made by Peter Goffin and Miriam Quayyum. The technical producer was Mike Regaard. The assistant editor is Sergi Forcada Freixas and the senior news editor is Jonathan Aspinwall.

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