Alexei
Nawalny

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Navalny, Alexey Anatolyevich
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Alexey Anatolyevich Navalny (June 4, 1976, Butyn, Odintsovo district, Moscow region, USSR February 16, 2024 , Kharp, Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug, Russia) - Russian politician and public figure , lawyer and video blogger. One of the leaders of the Russian opposition and a leading opponent of Russian President Vladimir Putin[ . He gained initial fame for his investigations into corruption in Russia . Creator of the Anti-Corruption Foundation, which unites subsidiary projects: “Smart Voting” “Navalny Trade Union”[⇨], “RosPil”, “RosZhKH”, “RosYama”, “RosVybory”“The Good Truth Machine”, author of the YouTube channels: “Alexey Navalny”, “Navalny LIVE” and “Popular Politics” (formerly “Navalny Headquarters”).
He took second place in the 2013 Moscow mayoral elections, receiving 27.24% of the vote and losing to Sergei Sobyanin . Since November 2013, he headed the Central Council of the political party “Russia of the Future”. In December 2016, he announced his intention to participate in the Russian presidential elections, which took place in March 2018. According to the editors of Vedomosti, he turned out to be virtually the only politician who conducted a full-fledged election campaign in 2017 , but on December 25, 2017, the Central Election Commission refused to register him due to an outstanding criminal record in the Kirovles case . In 2017-2018, he was the leader of the mass protest movement in Russia.
Since the beginning of the 2010s, he has been an accused, defendant and witness in a number of criminal, administrative, civil and arbitration cases, which international human rights organizations consider politically motivated . The most resonant of them are the “Kirovles Case” and the “Yves Rocher Case”. In both cases, the European Court of Human Rights ruled in favor of Navalny, and the cases were declared falsified. The ECHR also recognized seven episodes of detention and administrative arrests of Navalny in 2012-2014 as politically motivated[20]. In total, Navalny won 6 complaints against the Russian authorities in the ECHR for a total amount of 225 thousand euros
In 2009, Navalny was recognized by the Vedomosti newspaper as “person of the year” . In 2012 and 2021, Time magazine named him one of the 100 most influential people in the world, and in June 2017, one of the 25 most influential people on the Internet. In 2017 and 2019 he was chosen as Politician of the Year according to Vedomosti. According to the Romir research center, in the fall of 2020 it took 4th place in the trust rating of Russians, having risen from 19th position in six months[.
On August 20, 2020, as a result of poisoning with a chemical warfare agent, a member of the Novichok group fell into a coma[⇨]. From August 20 to 22 he was in the toxicology department of the city clinical hospital No. 1 in Omsk, and from August 22 to September 22 he was treated at the Charité hospital in Berlin, and after discharge he underwent rehabilitation in Germany. On January 17, 2021, after treatment in Germany, Navalny returned from Berlin to Moscow, where he was arrested while going through passport control. Navalnys poisoning caused an international and nationwide resonance. The European Union and Great Britain considered 6 high-ranking Russian officials and GosNIIOKHT involved in the assassination attempt on Navalny with the help of chemical weapons and imposed sanctions against them. Russian authorities have rejected accusations of involvement in his poisoning.
On February 2, 2021, the Simonovsky Court of Moscow replaced Navalny’s suspended sentence of 3 years and 6 months in the Yves Rocher case with a real one, serving a general regime colony for 2 years and 8 months. The ECHR and international human rights organizations Amnesty International and Memorial, some leaders of Western countries, as well as a number of Russian and foreign media recognized Navalny’s imprisonment as politically motivated. In May 2021, the human rights organization Amnesty International assigned Navalny the status of “prisoner of conscience”.
In October 2021, the European Parliament awarded Navalny the Sakharov Prize, the European Unions main human rights award. In 2022 he was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize .
On March 22, 2022, the Lefortovo District Court of Moscow sentenced Alexei Navalny to nine years in prison in a maximum security colony on charges of large-scale fraud and contempt of court .
On August 4, 2023, the Moscow City Court sentenced Alexei Navalny to another 19 years in prison in a special regime colony on charges of creating an extremist community, financing extremist activities, and calling for extremism on the Internet.
On February 16, 2024, the FSIN department for the Yamal-Nenets Autonomous Okrug reported that Navalny felt unwell after a walk, almost immediately losing consciousness. It is also alleged that the ambulance doctors carried out the necessary resuscitation measures, which did not give positive results and death was declared. The politician died while in the punishment cell for the 27th time, total stay Quelle Wikipedia