Dialogi with delivery to Ireland

ALEKSIEJ NAWALNY proved so strong and so formidable in Putin's eyes that the dictator would not let him live even in the harshest prison camp beyond the Arctic Circle, almost two thousand kilometres north of Moscow. Why did the Russian satrap fear him so much that he never uttered his name? The answer can be found in "Dialogi" by Adam Michnik and Aleksiej Nawalny, a record of an extraordinary meeting between two men who fought uncompromisingly for the freedom of their homelands. But it is also a book about Russia, a different Russia, the one for which Navalny was ready to give his life.

"The idea of cunning, treacherous Poles who hate Russians is very widespread in Russia. I think that normalising relations with Poland is one of the most important, but also one of the most complicated, goals to achieve in the new Russia. We should learn from Poland, because the same problems that Poland encountered on its road to Europe will be our problems too."
— ALEKSIEJ NAWALNY —

"I have been thinking about why you have such authority, Aleksei. You do not tell Russians, as more than one great nineteenth-century Russian writer did, that they are nothing. You respect people's dignity and show them that they can choose between honesty and lies. In my view, that is the most effective method of struggle: telling the truth instead of inciting society against the Putinists."
— ADAM MICHNIK —

Aleksei Navalny was born on 4 June 1976 in Butyn, near Moscow. He trained as a lawyer, but as a very young man he was already active in the pro-democracy Yabloko party. In 2008 he began a campaign against corruption in Russia as a blogger. Two years later he wrote that Putin's United Russia was "a party of crooks and thieves". The persecution began: investigations were launched against Navalny over alleged economic crimes. In 2012 he became one of the leaders of mass street protests against Putin's return to the Kremlin. He was arrested many times for taking part in demonstrations. In 2020 he fell ill on board a plane flying to Omsk. He was saved in a hospital in Germany, although it turned out that he had been poisoned with the notorious Novichok. A year later Navalny was arrested at a Moscow airport. He was sent to a prison camp in the Far North. On 16 February 2024 the world learned that Aleksei Navalny was dead.
While still free, he met Adam Michnik, editor-in-chief of "Gazeta Wyborcza", in Moscow. "DIALOGI" is a record of their conversations.