2024-02-22
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The recent death of russian anti corruption activist, opposition leader and political prisoner Alexey Navalny while serving a decades long sentence in a remote arctic penal colony shocked the world last week.
But for those watching the erosion of free expression in Russia closely over recent years, sadly, the news may have felt like more of a matter of grim inevitability rather than one of complete surprise.
Back in July 2022, we heard from british investigative journalist and author John Sweeney.
Hed just published a book, Killer in the Kremlin, a study of the brutal tyranny of russian president Vladimir Putin, who has maintained his grip on power in Moscow for now.
Nearly a quarter of a century, Putin's rule has left a trail of political opponents imprisoned, exiled, silenced, or worse.
In its wake, we've resurfaced that discussion with John Sweeney.
For today's episode, John was speaking to Carl Miller, co founder of the Centre for the Analysis of Social Media at the think tank demos.
Carl is also author of the Death of the gods, the new global power Grab, and is a fellow at the Global Initiative against transnational organized crime.
He also put some audience questions to John, too.