Registration REQUIRED by 4pm on February 17, 2025 in order to attend this event.

Please join the Harriman Institute for a talk by Yevgenia Albats. Moderated by Valentina Izmirlieva.

Alexei Navalny was the Russian opposition’s leader and the Russian dictator’s primary opponent, Vladimir Putin. He created the Anticorruption Foundation, which served as an umbrella movement and organization of investigators uncovering the corruption of the top Kremlin officials. His documentary about Putin’s luxurious palace on the shore of the Black Sea has gotten 180 million views. In 2020, Navalny was poisoned by the state-produced military-grade poison “Novichok.” He survived, recovered in Germany, and returned to Moscow in February 2021. He was arrested at the airport and never saw freedom until he was murdered in an Arctic penal colony on February 16, 2024. Yevgenia Albats got acquainted with Alexei Navalny at the beginning of his political career in 2004. Since then, Yevgenia Albats interviewed Navalny numerous times live at the Echo Moskvy broadcasting and for her magazine, “The New Times.” When Putin put Navalny in jail on tromp-up changes in 2021, Albats testified as a character witness in the spring of 2022 at one of his kangaroo courts conducted inside Navalny’s penal colony. Through three years of Navalny’s imprisonment in 2021–2024, until his death, Albats correspondent intensively with Navalny. She recalled that in her latest piece in The Guardian/Observer: https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2024/dec/28/alexei-navalny-remembered-by-yevgenia-albats

Alexei Navalny, “Patriot: A Memoir” ( New York: Knopf Publishing Group, 2024). Barack Obama listed it as a must-read book. The New York Times, The New Yorker, the Atlantic, and NPRlonglisted it as the year’s best book.

“Navalny” is a 2022 American documentary film directed by Daniel Rohr and produced by HBO Max and CNN. It won the Best Documentary Feature at the 95th Academy Awards.