23 - 29 June 2025 - Broad Chalke, Salisbury
Included
2:19pm, Moscow time, 16 February 2024. The Federal Penitentiary Service of the Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous District announces that Alexei Navalny is dead. The news sends shockwaves around the world. Award-winning journalist John Sweeney, who knew Navalny personally, goes behind the headlines to reveal what really happened to the Russian opposition leader in the freezing Polar Wolf penal colony in a remote part of Siberia. In this chilling story, Sweeny not only provides a warts-and-all portrayal of a highly charismatic but controversial figure but also issues a warning: if the West fails to stand up more forcefully to Putin, we are in danger not just of betraying Ukraine but our own security too.
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