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Transcript/ScriptRussia Navalny (TV)
HEADLINE: Mourners Arrested Laying Flowers for Dead Russian Opposition Leader Navalny
TEASER: After Alexey Navalny’s death in Russian custody, world leaders and mourners express outrage and sadness
PUBLISHED AT: 02/18/2024
BYLINE: Arash Arabasadi
CONTRIBUTOR:
DATELINE: Washington
VIDEOGRAPHER: REUTERS/ AP/ SOTAVISION/ US Network Pool/ X/ @ThisWeekABC/ Italian Foreign Ministry Handout/ European Union
SCRIPT EDITORS: caw, Page, (SV ok’d)
VIDEO SOURCE (S): REUTERS/ AP/ SOTAVISION/ US Network Pool/ X/ @ThisWeekABC/ Italian Foreign Ministry Handout/ European Union
PLATFORMS (mark with X): WEB __ TV X RADIO __
TRT: 2:42
NOTE: PART NO OBSCURE LOGO
VID APPROVED BY: SV
TYPE: TVPKG
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((INTRO)) [[Russian authorities are detaining people mourning the loss of opposition leader Alexey Navalny. He died in custody at an Arctic Circle penal colony late last week. Western leaders blame Russia. VOA’s Arash Arabasadi has more.]]
((VAR, FLOWERS, ST. PETERSBURG, RUS, REUTERS, 02/18))
((NARRATOR))
In Saint Petersburg, men removed flowers from a makeshift memorial honoring dead Russian opposition leader Alexey Navalny.
Almost immediately, new flowers took their place.
((VAR, FLOWERS, ST. PETERSBURG, AP, 02/17))
((NARRATOR))
Just one day earlier, police detained mourners for laying flowers in Navalny’s honor.
Independent Russian media and human rights group OVD-Info reported no fewer than 400 detentions at events across some 32 cities, after news of Navalny’s death broke late last week.
((NAVALNY IN COURT ON TV, KHARP, RUS, REUTERS, 02/15))
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((NARRATOR))
Navalny had been a longtime critic, broadly of the Kremlin and specifically of Russian President Vladimir Putin.
In December 2020, he accused Russia’s security agency, the FSB, of poisoning him with a confirmed Russia-made nerve agent.
((VAR, PENAL COLONY, KHARP, RUS, REUTERS, 12/28/2023))
((NARRATOR))
Russia officially blames Navalny’s death on an undisclosed illness at the Arctic penal colony where he was serving a 19-year sentence.
Western leaders aren’t buying it.
[RADIO TRACK: U.S. President Joe Biden at the White House as carried by U.S. Network Pool and provided by The Associated Press.]
((BIDEN AT PODIUM, WH, DC, AP, 02/16))
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“Make no mistake. Putin is responsible for Navalny’s death. Putin is responsible. What has happened to Navalny is yet more proof of Putin’s brutality. No one should be fooled. Not in Russia, not at home, (and) not anywhere in the world.”
((TRUMP RALLY, CONWAY, SC, AP, 02/10))
((NARRATOR))
The news of Navalny’s death came less than one week after former President Donald Trump told supporters at a rally that if reelected, he would “encourage” Russia to do, quote, “whatever the hell they want” to NATO members he felt weren’t spending enough money on defense.
Trump remains the Republican Party’s front runner to challenge Biden for the presidency in November.
As of this writing, he has yet to comment on Navalny.
[RADIO TRACK: His lone remaining rival for the Republican nomination is Trump’s former U.N. ambassador, Nikki Haley, who had sharp words for the former president.
She spoke on ABC’s This Week as carried on X, the platform formerly known as Twitter.]
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((Nikki Haley, Republican Presidential Candidate))
“When you hear Donald Trump say in South Carolina a week ago that he would encourage Putin to invade our allies if they weren’t pulling their weight, that’s bone chilling, because all he did in that one moment was empower Putin. And all he did in that moment was he sided with a guy that kills his political opponents. He sided with a thug that arrests American journalists and holds them hostage. And he sided with a guy who wanted to make a point to the Russian people: don’t challenge me in the next election, or this will happen to you, too.”
((MOMENT OF SILENCE, MUNICH, GER, AP, 02/17))
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((NARRATOR))
At a recent meeting in Munich, foreign ministers from the Group of Seven leading industrialized nations observed a minute of silence in memory of Navalny.
((VON DER LEYEN/NAVALNAYA, MUNICH, AP, 02/16))
((mandatory cg European Union))
((NARRATOR))
On the sidelines of the meeting, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen offered condolences to Navalny’s widow, Yulia Navalnaya.
((FLOWERS AT EMBASSY, LONDON, AP, 02/18))
((NARRATOR))
And as protesters left flowers and notes near the Russian Embassy in London…
((FLOWERS, MOSCOW, AP, 02/18))
((NARRATOR))
people in Moscow did the same… calling Navalny “a hero” who “fought for freedom.”
((Arash Arabasadi, VOA News.))
NewsML Media TopicsArts, Culture, Entertainment and Media
Subtitles / Dubbing AvailableNo
NetworkVOA
Embargo DateFebruary 18, 2024 16:15 EST
Byline
Arash Arabasadi, VOA News
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