instances that when russian opposition politicians have been tortured and thrown in jail or like boris nemtsov alexy himself has been under tremendous pressure over the last years of his brother served 3 and a half years in jail on totally falsified charges he has been attacked several times and we have learned recently that that attack on his life in august was not the 1st attempt to poison him and his wife was severely ill. during a previous attempt at poisoning so. he is you don't have to compare him to anybody he has been subject to immense pressure himself. he occupies a very unique position as you outlined there why does mr have on the rattle the russian leadership so much. i think it's several things he can do as we say he can play on different chess boards he can organize must protest he can build and effect different is aisha he is very he has in his fame him investigations of corruption in large state owned companies and among government officials so he is quite rosso tile and he has proven that fuse result is really unrivaled vladimir a sure cough executive director of the anti corr

in the past, we have had others — boris nemtsov,j who was shot in the back as he i walked across the had been the previous leader of the democratic- movement, suchl as it is, in russia. we can't lose sight of the fact that navalny is arguing - and trying to be a figurehead for a movement for free - and fair elections. not that this actually affects putin's authority as far - as i can see, since - he has already changed the constitution to allow himl to continue to be the de facto ruler of russia well into the future. - tonia can give - the details on that. i think both in washington and inside the kremlin, i how to deal with this is very- much about how much wind can he keep in his sails. i'lljust add one little - anecdote about social media. i posted that we would be i discussing this once you sent the script out, shaun, . and within five minutes, i had people sending tweets about what a dreadful man i navalny was from people who do not follow me! i how did they find my tweets? i have only got. 2,000 followers! they managed to find me. i think that is how the kremlin will fight, the

zhanna nemtsova is the daughter of the assasinated russian opposition politican, boris nemtsov. the i joined the marches ijoined the marches of my father, and i was very much surprised with the numbers. i think... and i was very much surprised with the numbers. ithink... it's difficult to estimate, but i think around 10,000 people took to the streets today. lots of young people. and i guess that it is the biggest growth since the early 90s, and all protesters were very peaceful and i'm very much proud of my fellow citizens. i was not afraid, i was ready for everything. i was ready to be detained, i was not. there were some detentions. the head of navalny�*s was detained earlier in the morning. he was not able to join the morning. he was not able to join the protest here. there were some other detentions, but i was not afraid at all. i was ready. i think putin is very much afraid of those crowds that we saw today. all over russia, and i don't know what his response might be to these protests. but i think that many people today took to the streets not because of politics, but it w

he's also the chairman of boris nemtsov foundation. what do you make of this detention?at do you make of this detention? for the past several weeks the kremlin has done everything possible to try to prevent alexei navalny from coming back to russia, they made all of these announcements that he will be detained, arrested, that there is a search warrant issued against him and they are trying to do this to every major opposition leader in our country, to make people stay away, because they understand that when a russian politician is outside of russia, he or she ceases to be a russian politician, you can't do politics outside of the countries of the most effective way for putin's regime to fight its opponents is to try to drive them abroad, so for example, both times after i was poisoned, as you mentioned after a jo poisoned, as you mentioned after ajo i concluded my medical rehabilitation abroad, there was no question on my mind that i am returning home to russia, which i did both times, because those of us who oppose the putin regime, there is nothing we can do for the kr

natalia pelevina from russia's opposition parnas party, founded by the assassinated politician boris nemtsov navalny for many years and participated in today's protests in moscow. she gave the bbc her view of what the protesters hope to achieve. all of us want... well, i'm pretty sure most of us want navalny to be out ofjail because that's just a nuisance, what's going on with him. it's complete lawlessness. we want him freed immediately, but how many of them see him as a president of russia? that's a different story. that's not everybody at all. people want him freed, but not necessarily as the president of russia, as the successor of putin, so it's a different situation. but people who are coming out to the streets to protest, they all want things to change. that's what they're coming out there for, for change. they see things that are stale and corrupt and just drowning russia into this horrific situation that it's in at the moment, and it can no longer go on. the president of the european commission, ursula von der leyen, has been meeting pharmaceutical bosses to discuss issues with the

zhanna nemtsova is the daughter of the assasinated russian opposition politican, boris nemtsov.one of today's protests in nizhny novgorod in central russia and joins me now. how would the protests that you? you went out on the streets, what was it like? �* , ., , went out on the streets, what was it like? �* , .,, ., ., went out on the streets, what was it like?�* , ., ., ., like? i'm pleased to 'oin you today. i took to the _ like? i'm pleased to 'oin you today. i took to the streets — like? i'm pleased to join you today. i took to the streets for _ like? i'm pleased to join you today. i took to the streets for the - like? i'm pleased to join you today. i took to the streets for the first - i took to the streets for the first time. normally, ijoined i took to the streets for the first time. normally, i joined the time. normally, ijoined the protests in moscow and the marchers in the name of my father, was very much surprised with numbers. i think that... it's difficult to estimate but i think around 10,000 people took to the streets today, lots of young people, and i guess that

his meeting with putin coming to meet the leader of the russian opposition including the late boris nemtsovthe best sense of the world, reagan met with soviet disdents just after he met with the soviet leadership and it is very important to take that gesture and those words and translate them into action and into policy. among the most important directions that i would name would be, as we already discussed, finally going after that dirty money and enacting those targeted, sanks on key oligarchs like putin that enable. >> you're talking about the magnitsky act. >> not sanctions against the russian people and targeted sanks against the cronies and the oligarchs and the high-ranking human rights abusers that have made it a habit from stealing in russia for our people and going and spending and stashing away that stolen money in the west. that would be a very important step to make, and i mention this so-called golden trillion, the 1 trillion u.s. dollars in private assets stashed in western jurisdictions. there are several precedents for this one. assets of dictatorial regimes to be handed ba

then there was boris nemtsov, a fierce putin kritic and opposition leader, shot dead in 2015 outside kremlin's walls as he walked home from a restaurant. the kremlin denies any connection with the killings. opposition figures say beatings and threats are commonplace. "political opponents are also shamed and discredited, sometimes with secretly recorded sex tapes like this one for the former russian prime minister turned kremlin critic. mikhail khodorkovsky says the new u.s. administration must now take the global lead to protect alexei navalny. "personal sanctions must be imposed by president biden and others in the west on those closest to putin," he tells me. "this would be extremely painful for putin's entourage and will affect the stability of his power," he says. it would also show alexei navalny himself and the tens of thousands across russia protesting for his release that they have powerful allies. well, wolf, tonight alexei navalny's lawyers are preparing for a day in court tomorrow where they'll be appealing the decision to detain alexei navalny. but despite international c

instances that when russian opposition politicians have been tortured and thrown in jail or like boris nemtsovalexei himself has been under tremendous pressure over the last years of his brother served 3 and a half years in jail on totally falsified charges he has been attacked several times and we have learned recently that that attack on his life in august was not the 1st attempt to poison him and his wife was severely ill. during a previous attempt at poisoning so. he is you don't have to compare it seem to anybody he has been subject to immense pressure himself. he occupies a very unique position as you outlined there why does mr nifong the rattle the russian leadership so much. i think it's several things he can do as we say he can play on different chessboard he can organize must protest he can't build and effect different ization. he is very he has in his fame investigations of corruption in large state owned companies and among government officials so he is quite grosso trial and he has proven that he is result is really unrivaled vladimir sure cough executive director of the anti corr

boris nemtsov, who was one of the most popular opposition politicians, was murdered in 2015 right inned, they tried to kill him twice. i believe it was only a fluke that he survived. and then alexei navalny they tried to kill, and if it hadn't been for the airplane landing -- he was on a flight from siberia to moscow, they poisoned him before he got on the flight, and the plane took an emergency landing, and the paramedics ghei him some antidote, but if that hadn't happened, he'd have been killed. i think vladimir putin is acting out of desperation particularly in the case of navalny because he's scared of navalny leading an uprising which is exactly -- gillian: i was going to say, isn't that what we're seeing, or at least the beginnings of an uprising in let's talk politics for a we could, right? the only -- second, right? the only reason i putin's bothering to do any of this stuff is because his political calculations tell him it's fine for him to do this, but isn't he talking a tremendous hit among russian citizens? tell us a little bit -- i mean, we're looking at the pictures rig