John Sweeney – Murder in the Gulag: The Life & Death of Alexei Navalny

We feature one of this year’s most explosive titles. The award-winning journalist John Sweeney goes behind the headlines to reveal what really happened to the ill-fated Russian opposition leader. He tells Alexei Navalny’s extraordinary life story in technicolour detail, from his childhood summers spent with his grandparents in the shadow of the Chernobyl nuclear plant in Ukraine to his untimely death at the age of 47, cut down in his prime. 

In conversation with Con Coughlin