With the possibility of a new US administration taking office next year, the question of how to approach Russia is looming increasingly larger in Washington. Opposition politician Vladimir Milov and national security expert Evelyn Farkas join Susan and Greg to discuss how the opposition is coping after Alexei Navalny’s poisoning and how should Western countries must deal with President Vladimir Putin.

 

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Guests

EVELYN FARKAS

Former Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense

 

 

VLADIMIR MILOV

Economic advisor to Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny

Former Deputy Minister of Energy, Russia

 

 

Hosts

GREGORY FEIFER

Executive Director, Institute of Current World Affairs

Journalist, author of Russians: The People Behind the Power

 

SUSAN CORKE

Director, Transatlantic Democracy Working Group

Senior Fellow, German Marshall Fund of the United States

 

The Cable is produced by Rebecca Picard

 

 

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