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| Alexei Navalny’s hunger strike has prompted widespread international support. Vladimir Putin has warned that any country meddling in Russia’s affairs will “regret their actions”. How should the West respond to a tyrant like Putin? Chapters 00:00 - What’s happening in Russia? 00:54 - What does Navalny represent for Russia? 01:36 - How should America respond? 03:08 - Do sanctions work? 05:30 - Why were troops sent to the Ukranian border? 07:20 - What if Russia tries to annex more of Ukraine? Sign up to our newsletter to stay up to date: https://econ.st/3dKfK7B Read more of our coverage on Europe: https://econ.st/3njAxSA Why Alexei Navalny is still Putin’s nemesis: https://econ.st/3ndpavn Read the open letter published in The Economist demanding medical care for Alexei Navalny: https://econ.st/3neaITE Thousands of Russians protest against Alexei Navalny’s imprisonment: https://econ.st/3dIP7zI The Kremlin’s criticism of Alexei Navalny is making him more popular: https://econ.st/3nfi49E How Russia’s regime is weakened by putting Alexei Navalny in jail: https://econ.st/3ncM0TX Why is tension rising in Ukraine? https://econ.st/3gwWn3x Listen to an episode of “The Intelligence” podcast about Russian troops on the Ukrainian border: https://econ.st/32Ri8Dj Russia faces blowback over its intelligence agents’ actions across Europe: https://econ.st/3dJpvmu How the Kremlin outwitted Amnesty International: https://econ.st/3sLnEBC What does Russia's departure from the Open Skies treaty mean for arms control? https://econ.st/3tMkajU How Putin and Erdogan have formed a brotherhood of hard power: https://econ.st/3ngLNyN |
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Fancy Turtle
2021-04-30 at 03:39 (UTC 2) Link to this comment
Putin ma man
Emmanuel Lee
2021-04-30 at 04:34 (UTC 2) Link to this comment
Tsar Putin
Пеший Трумен
2021-04-30 at 06:29 (UTC 2) Link to this comment
Для меня Навальный постепенно превратился из оппозиционера в предателя и жулика. В начале думал что Навальный что-то из себя представляет, к чему то стремиться, что-то хочет изменить…. Но все скатилось к желаниям запада, в которых не оказалось места желаниям граждан России.
Alec72HD
2021-05-02 at 07:35 (UTC 2) Link to this comment
Хорошо сказано.
Сэр Навральный хотел повторить путь Ельцина.
maria
2021-04-30 at 07:01 (UTC 2) Link to this comment
Putin❤
Alisteir Crowley
2021-04-30 at 13:54 (UTC 2) Link to this comment
What about.. And this might sound crazy, we stop meddling with the affairs of other countries? I`m in no way saying russia is perfect or a place i`d personally like to live, but the hypocrisy of the west is astonishing.
StreetArtillery
2021-04-30 at 13:59 (UTC 2) Link to this comment
Maybe Assange. Maybe Snowden
Owen Chua
2021-04-30 at 15:03 (UTC 2) Link to this comment
Himself…..
Volody Putin
2021-04-30 at 18:07 (UTC 2) Link to this comment
hate you
M B
2021-05-01 at 15:28 (UTC 2) Link to this comment
What about who will stop the Chinese Communist Party? The CCP is a bigger threat to world peace and human rights. The Economist's relatively soft touch on China is disappointing.
Juan Santana
2021-05-01 at 16:16 (UTC 2) Link to this comment
I belive the question should be "who would stop the ax-Anglia"? Perhaps Russia would, I'd vote for that.
Gabriel Montufar
2021-05-01 at 17:51 (UTC 2) Link to this comment
Stand up to Russia???
Have you seen the Russian Navy?
Stuck patrolling its Northern Borders.
Attacking Ukraine?
That's a family problem.
Have you seen the Russian Space Program?
Bankrupt & Chinese dependent.
The United States' Economy is 16X bigger than Russia's.
What planet are you guys living on?
The United States runs this world.
And btw?
We also run Mars, now too. We have Air Superiority over Mars. And Resource Extraction Superiority on Mars well.
You all only tickle each other with your inanity & stupidity
Ced Col
2021-05-01 at 23:00 (UTC 2) Link to this comment
Free Julian Assange and Mumia Abu Jamal
Pedro Costa e Silva
2021-05-02 at 00:01 (UTC 2) Link to this comment
Assange: Will the Russian Federation stand up to the USA?
Greg Andtrws
2021-05-02 at 00:28 (UTC 2) Link to this comment
All men that are born of a woman will one day surely …
dogy mal
2021-05-02 at 01:26 (UTC 2) Link to this comment
To understand current Russia, you have to understand Putin.
Gino Passos
2021-05-02 at 10:17 (UTC 2) Link to this comment
The absense of the subject of "motivations of Russia" on such analysis gives us reason to believe that they are one sided.
DaniH
2021-05-02 at 14:43 (UTC 2) Link to this comment
Think about this: you have an international coalition against you, including a few members who have not necessarily behaved in a way where they should be crapping on anyone else. Several of these countries are weaponized to the hilt with nuclear weapons, which they themselves expect (and sanction) other countries not to have. What would you do if you were the Russian government and this was your reality since the 50s? Would you lay back and allow NATO or the US to continue to keep building this defence against you, propagandize (and if you don’t think the US has or still uses propaganda against Russia, wake up) and force other countries to join in their aggressions because of NATO relationships? Putin is only responding the way the US would if they had this huge machine against them and it’s only purpose was to police them. What NATO was created for has kept Russia in this position where it can’t ever just relax or let their guard down. Sure, Putin’s government has corruption, but the US government doesn’t? If NATO didn’t exist, Russia wouldn’t need to weaponize itself like it has to The US would do exactly the same f it were in the same position as Russia. The difference is that the US wants everyone to answer to them but it refuses to ever answer to anyone else and actually balks at the thought. The heights of US hypocrisy is unbelievable.
RawRezTheWalrus
2021-05-02 at 15:10 (UTC 2) Link to this comment
Man i love The Economist and their bedroom experts.
ConstructiveMinds100
2021-05-03 at 03:35 (UTC 2) Link to this comment
FREE JULLIAN ASSANGE if you support freedom of soeech.
Lets start from there
ConstructiveMinds100
2021-05-03 at 03:43 (UTC 2) Link to this comment
Why England and Us so care about Ukrain.
After the second war they allowed all countries of East Europe to be unexed by Russia despite having soo much power?
Whats the catch?