Alexei Anatolievich Navalny (Russian: Алексей Анатольевич Навальный, IPA: [ɐlʲɪkˈsʲej ɐnɐˈtolʲjɪvʲɪtɕ nɐˈvalʲnɨj]; born 4 June 1976) is a Russian opposition leader, lawyer, and anti-corruption activist. He came to international prominence by organizing anti-government demonstrations and running for office to advocate reforms against corruption in Russia, and against President Vladimir Putin and his government. Navalny has been described as “the man Vladimir Putin fears most” by The Wall Street Journal. Putin avoids directly referring to Navalny by name. Navalny was a Russian Opposition Coordination Council member. He is the leader of the Russia of the Future party and the founder of the Anti-Corruption Foundation (FBK).
Alexei Anatolievich Navalny (Russian: Алексей Анатольевич Навальный, IPA: [ɐlʲɪkˈsʲej ɐnɐˈtolʲjɪvʲɪtɕ nɐˈvalʲnɨj]; born 4 June 1976) is a Russian opposition leader, lawyer, and anti-corruption activist. He came to international inflection by organizing anti-government demonstrations and running for office to campaigner reforms neighboring corruption in Russia, and next to President Vladimir Putin and his government. Navalny has been described as “the man Vladimir Putin fears most” by The Wall Street Journal. Putin avoids directly referring to Navalny by name. Navalny was a Russian Opposition Coordination Council member. He is the leader of the Russia of the Future party and the founder of the Anti-Corruption Foundation (FBK).
Navalny has higher than six million YouTube subscribers and more than two million Twitter followers. Through these channels, he publishes material about sullying in Russia, organizes political demonstrations and promotes his campaigns. In a 2011 radio interview, he described Russia’s ruling party, United Russia, as a “party of crooks and thieves”, which became a popular epithet. Navalny and the FBK have published investigations detailing alleged tarnishing by high-ranking Russian officials. In March 2017, Navalny and the FBK released the documentary He Is Not Dimon to You, accusing Dmitry Medvedev, the after that prime minister and former president of Russia, of corruption, leading to addition protests across the country.
In July 2013, Navalny traditional a suspended sentence for embezzlement. Despite this, he was allowed to direct for mayor in the 2013 Moscow mayoral election and came in second, with 27% of the vote, outperforming expectations but losing to incumbent mayor Sergey Sobyanin, a Putin appointee. In December 2014, Navalny customary another suspended sentence for embezzlement. Both of his criminal cases were widely considered to be politically goaded and designed to bar him from meting out in forward-looking elections. The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) later ruled that the cases violated Navalny’s right to a fair trial, but they were never overturned. In December 2016, Navalny launched his presidential demonstrate for the 2018 presidential election but he was barred by Russia’s Central Electoral Commission (CEC) after registering due to his prior criminal conviction and the Supreme Court of Russia rejected his appeal. In 2017, the CEC avowed that he would not be eligible to govern for president until after 2028.
In 2018, he initiated Bright Voting, a tactical voting strategy designed to consolidate the votes of those who oppose United Russia, in order to deprive them of seats in elections.
In August 2020, Navalny was hospitalized in invincible condition after he was polluted with a Novichok nerve agent. He was medically evacuated to Berlin and discharged a month later. Navalny accused Putin of being blamed for his poisoning, and an study implicated agents from the Federal Security Service (FSB). The EU, UK and US responded by imposing sanctions on senior Russian officials.
On 17 January 2021, he returned to Russia and was detained on accusations of violating parole conditions (imposed fittingly of his 2014 conviction) because he had failed to story to Russia’s Federal Prison Service (FSIN) twice per month during his illness. Following his arrest and the freedom of the documentary Putin’s Palace which accused Putin of corruption, mass protests across the country were held. On 2 February, his suspended sentence was replaced with a prison sentence, meaning he will spend more than two and half years in a corrective labour colony in Vladimir Oblast. A conclusive by the ECHR called for his release. While in prison, Navalny and human rights groups have accused Russian authorities of using torture against him. He is endorsed by the Amnesty International as a prisoner of conscience.