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World Service,18 Jan 2021,53 mins

Navalny arrest: a Russian opposition candidate's view

Newsday

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Vladimir Putin's main critic, Alexei Navalny is detained after he flies home from Germany five months after he was poisoned in a nerve agent attack. China releases its latest economic growth figures - and they're doing very well. So how did they manage to bounce back a year after they imposed the first lockdown due to coronavirus? And as Brazil reels from the pandemic, we take a look at the new strain of virus there.

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