Aleksei Navalny has not only created a movement, he’s created a network. He has established a massive horizontally integrated civic organization spanning Russia’s eleven time zones. This represents an unprecedented feat of civic organizing.
But with Navalny now facing years in prison, the question remains: can his network survive without its leader?
Can the Navalny’s power horizontal continue to challenge Vladimir Putin’s power vertical? And how effective are Western sanctions at raising the costs of the Putin regime’s repression against Navalny and his organization?
On this week’s Power Vertical Podcast, host Brian Whitmore discusses the Navalny network and its future with Vladimir Ashurkov, Executive Director of Navalny’s Anti-Corruption Foundation and Russia scholar Maria Snegovaya, a Nonresident Fellow at The Atlantic Council.