INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
Alexei Anatolievich Navalny, the most prominent opposition politician of the late Putin era, died in prison on Friday, according to the
Yamalo-Nenets branch of the Federal Penitentiary Service (FSIN)
Known for his online anti-corruption activities and ill-fated electoral campaigns, Navalny was a frequent target of the security
political views first emerged, overhearing Anatoly and his fellow officers saying such radical things around the kitchen table that she felt
compelled to cover the windows of their house.Another influence on Navalny was the nine summers he spent with his paternal grandmother in a
Ukrainian village not far from Chernobyl
He remained a Yabloko member, becoming deputy chief of the Moscow branch and joining their Federal Council, for the next seven years, until
according to the party.Navalny had been involved in organizing the hardline nationalist Russian March, an annual march through Moscow,
Russians, rhetoric that left would-be supporters at home and abroad hesitant to embrace him, despite his popularity.Navalny gained
companies, he found that dividends from oil transport monopoly Transneft were smaller than expected and that the company was donating
hundreds of millions of dollars to unnamed charities
Attempts to push authorities to launch a criminal investigation went nowhere, and an anti-corruption crusade was born.In addition to his
a site that allowed Russians to report potholes and track government responses
Medvedev and former First Deputy Prime Minister Igor Shuvalov of using an undeclared $62-million private business jet, as well as State Duma
DA!-Democratic Alternative, which hosted political debates aimed at engaging young people, was elected to a short-lived opposition
Coordination Council, co-founded the democratic nationalist National Russian Liberation Movement, NAROD, and completed a six-month
against alleged parliamentary election fraud, Navalny was arrested for the first time
around the next presidential elections, in 2017 and 2018, and the 2019 Moscow City Duma elections.In 2013, he was elected chairman of the
He ran for mayor of Moscow that year, coming in second, and was attacked with green antiseptic dye several times before being blocked from
running for president in 2018.As he continued his corruption investigations, Navalny was convicted on spurious embezzlement charges in 2013,
In 2019, he and several associates were found guilty of libel and sentenced to pay over $1 million after publishing an investigation into a
company linked to Yevgeny Prigozhin
Other lawsuits and criminal cases led Navalny, unable to pay mounting fines, to dissolve the Anti-Corruption Foundation in 2020.Compounding
his troubles, on a 2020 trip to the Siberian city of Tomsk, Navalny was poisoned with the Novichok nerve agent, which many believe was the
work of Russia's Federal Security Service (FSB)
He was flown in a coma to Berlin, where he recovered
Still in ill health, he flew back to Moscow in January 2021, where he was, as Russian authorities had warned, promptly arrested and
Russia is going through it, and we are coming along
I am all right, and I have no regrets
Everything will be all right
lack of freedom in Russia but against our total lack of happiness
We have everything, but we are an unhappy country..
So we should change our slogan
Russia should be not only free but also happy
third anniversary of his imprisonment, he released a statement, read by his supporters, explaining why he had come back to Russia
children, Daria and Zakhar.
