Opposition in Russia: The Trials of Alexei Navalny

Alexei Navalny is the leading opposition leader in Russia. He is also currently serving a lengthy prison sentence in a Russian correctional colony. This lecture will look at the use of the processes of the law by the Russian state to silence and isolate Navalny and to neutralise other forms of internal dissent. It will consider more widely the state of the rule of law in Russia since its invasion of Ukraine. A lecture by Thomas Grant KC The transcript and downloadable versions of the lectur...