Alexei Navalny’s Memoir Reveals The Wire as Inspiration for Political Career: ‘I’m a Huge Fan’
In his posthumously published memoir, Alexei Navalny, the Russian opposition leader, describes how he was directly inspired by American grassroots politics as depicted in The Wire, David Simon’s seminal HBO series about crime and power in Baltimore, when he launched his political career in the campaign for mayor of Moscow in 2013. “I was banned … Read more
