Only action against corruption can solve the world’s biggest problems Alexei Navalny
Aug 27, 2021
3 minutes
Illustration Guardian Design
Translated by Arch Tait
ne year ago, I did not die from poisoning by a chemical weapon, and it would seem that corruption played no small part in my survival. Having contaminated Russia’s state system, corruption has also contaminated the intelligence services. When a country’s senior management is preoccupied with protection rackets and extortion, the quality of covert operations inevitably suffers. A group of FSB agents applied nerve agent to my underwear just as shoddily as they incompetently dogged my footsteps for three and a half years – in violation
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