Scholars’ Circle – Death of Navalny and other autocratic tactics to disrupt democracy- March 3, 2024
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What does the death of Russia's high profile dissident, Alexi Navalny, mean for the future of the country? Who was Alexi Navalny and what exactly did he stand for? Navalny was not the only political dissident in Russia. Who else is resisting the government and what are their causes? And what does Alexei Navalny's death portend for Russian leader, Vladimir Putin? Does it suggest he's a strongman or that he is, instead, weaker than he appears? [ dur:58mins ] Steve Swerdlow, esq. is Associate Professor of the Practice of Human Rights in the Department of Political and International Relations at the University of Southern California. He is the author of Uzbekistan’s Religious and Political Prisoners and Uzbekistan’s Ethnic Minorities: Out of Sight, But Not Out of Mind. He writes extensively as a human rights monitor for Human Right Watch. Robert English is Associate Professor of International Relations and Co-Director of the Central European Studies Program at the University of Southern California (USC). He is the author of Russia and the Idea of the West. This program is produced by Doug Becker, Ankine Aghassian, Maria Armoudian and Sudd Dongre.
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