“all of them ended up testifying in our favour – it’s stupid and completely absurd.”
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Alexei Navalny
Alexei Anatolyevich Navalny was a Russian opposition leader, anti-corruption activist and political prisoner. He founded the Anti-Corruption Foundation (FBK) in 2011. He was recognised by Amnesty International as a prisoner of conscience and was awarded the Sakharov Prize for his work on human rights.
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politics · Russian opposition leader and activist (1976–2024) · politician · lawyer · activist · blogger · public figure · activist shareholder · YouTuber · film director · screenwriter · entrepreneur · also Alexei Navalny, Aleksey Navalnyy, Alexei Anatolyevich Navalny, Alexey Navalny, Navalny
Born 4 June 1976 · Died 16 February 2024 · Q155979
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2026· 23 entries
“s independence or national identity. He also claimed to see in Ukraine”
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“It is difficult for me to understand exactly what is going on in [Putin”
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“s alleged lovers Svetlana Krivonogikh and Alina Kabaeva. Navalny”
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“s right to participate in federal elections without signatures collecting. However, Nemtsov”
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Published video “Юлия Навальная отвечает на письма. Пишите их на letter@yulianavalnaya.com”.
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Informat.ro: The Russian police detained a German citizen suspected of donating 10 dollars to Alexei Navalny's fund.
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Informat.ro: La policía rusa ha detenido a un ciudadano alemán sospechoso de haber donado 10 dólares al fondo de Alexei Navalny.
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Daily Mail: Video: Alexei Navalny back in court accused of slander amid prison sentence
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NewVision.co.ug: Ent. & Lifestyle: Russian Orthodox Church suspends Navalny m
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NewVision.co.ug: Politics: Navalny widow vows to take up the fight for Russia
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theins.press: St. Petersburg university lecturer detained over donations to Alexei Navalny’s Anti-Corruption Foundation
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Published video “Письмо Навальной от бывшего сторонника «Единой России»”.
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Published video “Золотая молодежь из «Единой России». Как живет новая путинская элита”.
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Published video “Срочное обращение Юлии Навальной”.
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Meduza: Navalny’s widow Yulia Navalnaya urges Russians to vote for any party except United Russia in State Duma election
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Infobae: La viuda de Alexéi Navalny, la sucesora del legado opositor, llamó a los rusos a votar por Yábloko en las próximas elecciones
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Published video “Юлия Навальная призывает голосовать за Яблоко”.
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Published video “Народ - нищий, семьи чиновников - миллиардеры. Почему так?”.
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Published video “Юлия Навальная отвечает на письмо жены военного”.
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Published video “Список «Единой России»: Кто эти люди на самом деле?”.
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Published video “Отвечаю на ваши письма. Часть 25. Пишите их на letter@yulianavalnaya.com”.
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Published video “Навальная про Wildberries”.
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2025· 1 entry
The book was declared an "extremist material" by the Russian justice ministry
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2024· 17 entries
Awarded Dresden Prize (2024).
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Awarded Award "For Freedom of Mass Media" (2024).
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Reported claimRated While this is a genuine BBC article accurately reporting Amnesty’s decision to stop referring to Mr Navalny in this way in February 2021, the decision was reversed months later and Amnesty apologised. · Full Fact
Full Fact rated the claim “The BBC reported that Amnesty International stripped Alexei Navalny of his ‘prisoner of conscience’ status.” While this is a genuine BBC article accurately reporting Amnesty’s decision to stop referring to Mr Navalny in this way in February 2021, the decision was reversed months later and Amnesty apologised..
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Snopes rated the claim “Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny died from the COVID-19 vaccine.” Unfounded.
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PolitiFact rated the claim “Donald Trump’s fine in the New York fraud case “is a form of Navalny, it is a form of communism or fascism.”” Pants on Fire.
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WUSA9 rated the claim “Did Alexey Navalny appear healthy hours before his death in a Russian jail?” True.
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Snopes.com rated the claim “An image captured of Russian dissident Alexei Navalny behind bars is the last photograph of him alive.” Miscaptioned.
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Snopes rated the claim “Russian dissident Alexei Navalny's death notice was posted just two minutes after his official time of death.” Unproven.
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Died 2024-02-16.
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“I had this cliché moment of a Russian émigré abroad: I really missed black bread. I know it’s stupid, but I really missed it.”
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“[F]orgive me if this sounds pompous, but it’s better to die standing up than live on your knees.”
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“[I]f tomorrow ten businessmen spoke up directly and openly we'd live in a different country. Starting tomorrow.”
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Career landmark: death and funeral of Alexei Navalny.
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“No one should be beaten. [Instead,] everything that bothers us should be carefully, but unyieldingly eliminated by means of deportation... A tooth without a root is considered dead. A nationalist is he who does not want the root ‘Russian’ to be deleted from the word ‘Russia.’ We have the right to be Russian in Russia and we will protect this right.”
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“I think very poorly of United Russia. United Russia is the party of corruption, the party of crooks and thieves. And it is the duty of every patriot and citizen of our country to make sure that this party is destroyed.”
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“We have problems with illegal migration, we have the problem of the Caucasus, we have a problem of ethnic crimes... the fact that our authorities hypocritically pretend that such problems do not exist leads to people discussing them only in the street, at the Russian March.”
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The Russian prison service reported that Navalny had died
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2023· 3 entries
Awarded Günter Walraff award (2023).
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Awarded Bambi Award (2023).
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The documentary film about him, Navalny, directed by Daniel Roher, won Best Documentary at the 76th British Academy Film Awards and Best Documentary Feature at the 95th Academy Awards
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2022· 1 entry
Awarded Civil Courage Prize (2022).
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2021· 10 entries
VOA rated the claim ““This newly revealed fact in the case of the so-called ‘Navalny poisoning’ should be the subject of the most thorough study.”” False.
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VOA rated the claim “On multiple topics – Ukraine, cyber attacks, Crimea, Alexey Navalny – Putin made misleading statements after his meeting with U.S. President Joe Biden.” Misleading.
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Awarded Boris Nemtsov Prize (2021).
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Awarded Courage Award (2021).
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Awarded Knight of Freedom Award (2021).
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Awarded Sakharov Prize (2021).
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Awarded M100 Media Award (2021).
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VOA rated the claim “"The Navalny case acquired a foreign policy tone artificially, I would say, and completely unlawfully."” False.
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“Putin has just announced full-scale mass political repression in Russia.”
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“s personal physician, Anastasia Vasilyeva, and two CNN correspondents, were arrested outside the prison when they attempted to visit Navalny whose health significantly deteriorated. On 7 April 2021, Navalny”
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2020· 3 entries
VOA rated the claim “"The so-called ‘investigation’ posted on the Internet by A. Navalny about the alleged actions taken against him is a planned provocation aimed at discrediting the FSB of Russia and its employees, the implementation of which would not have been possible without the organizational and technical sup…” Misleading.
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VOA rated the claim ““Sergey Lavrov pointed out that any attempts to make a political issue out of the so-called Navalny case, including within the OPCW, were unacceptable...”” Misleading.
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Career landmark: poisoning of Alexei Navalny.
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2019· 2 entries
Career landmark: Leader of Russia of the Future (2019–2021).
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“Cases of dysentery were proven using documents. But it”
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2018· 6 entries
Election lost: 2018 presidential election.
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Awarded Gold Play Button (2018).
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VOA rated the claim ““Aleksei Navalny is not the defendant in the suit, despite the fact that he illegally used information about the private life of Oleg Deripaska, savoring in his video the details of private life and making unfounded accusations.”” Misleading.
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Citing Navalny's corruption conviction
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After the establishment of the autonomous Orthodox Church of Ukraine, an event labelled as the ending of more than three centuries of Russian spiritual and temporal control of the dominant faith in Ukraine, Navalny tweet
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Campaign: 2018 presidential election.
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2017· 2 entries
Awarded Time 100 (2017).
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Leonid Volkov, Navalny's chief of staff, said that Navalny's team supported the legalisation of same-sex marriage
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2016· 2 entries
Earned Silver Play Button (2016).
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Navalny spoke against the Russian intervention in the Syrian civil war, believing that there are internal problems in Russia that need to be dealt with rather than to get involved in foreign wars
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2015· 2 entries
Awarded Prize of the Platform of European Memory and Conscience (2015).
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Alexei and Oleg Navalny were chosen to receive the "Prize of the Platform of European Memory and Conscience 2015"
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2014· 2 entries
And Ruslan Magomedragimov in 2015, and politician Nikita Isayev in 2019
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Navalny received a suspended sentence in the Yves Rocher case, which he called politically motivated and in 2017, the European Court of Human Rights ruled that Navalny was unfairly convicted
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2013· 6 entries
Published video “Дзядко пишут МБХ”.
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Published video “Бастрыкин на дороге”.
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Where he came second, was mixed: Nezavisimaya Gazeta declared, "The voting campaign turned a blogger into a politician", and following an October 2013 Levada Center poll that showed Navalny made it to the list of potenti
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Campaign: 2013 Moscow mayoral candidacy.
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After ethnic riots in a Moscow district took place, which were sparked by a murder committed by a migrant, Navalny sympathised with the anti-immigration movement and commented that ethnic tensions and crimes are inevitab
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Career landmark: Leader of Russia of the Future (2013–2018).
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2012· 3 entries
Published video “Перехват радиосигнала”.
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Published video “Они украли у нас страну”.
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As one of the world's 100 most influential people, the only Russian on the list
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2011· 9 entries
Election won: 2011 parliamentary election and protests.
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Published video “Припомним Жуликам и Ворам их Манифест-2002.”.
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Published video “Отомсти им за цены на бензин”.
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Awarded FP Top 100 Global Thinkers (2011).
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Published video “ВТБ. Костин о буровых установках”.
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Published video “Единая Россия - партия жуликов и воров”.
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Campaign: 2011 parliamentary election and protests.
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Navalny stated that he considered himself a "nationalist democrat"
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Foreign Policy magazine named Navalny to the FP Top 100 Global Thinkers, along with Daniel Domscheit-Berg and Sami Ben Gharbia of Tunisia, for "shaping the new world of government transparency"
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2010· 6 entries
Published video “Трубоеды. Как пилят в Транснефти. Embezzlement in Transneft.”.
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Published video “VTB. Old Thieves”.
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Studied at Yale University (2010).
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Upon recommendation from Garry Kasparov, Yevgeniya Albats and Sergey Guriev, Navalny received a scholarship to the Yale World Fellows program at Yale University, where he studied political science and world affairs
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Due to his move to Moscow, he ceased to be a member of advocate's chamber of Kirov Oblast and became a member of advocate's chamber of Moscow (registration number 77/9991)
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After the businessman Sergei Kolesnikov, who was involved in the project, gave details about it
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2009· 3 entries
Awarded Person of the Year (2009).
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Navalny became an advocate and a member of advocate's chamber (bar association) of Kirov Oblast (registration number 43/547)
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While acting as an adviser to Kirov's governor Nikita Belykh
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2008· 4 entries
Navalny sought to become an activist shareholder in five Russian oil and gas companies (Rosneft, Gazprom, Gazprom Neft, Lukoil, and Surgutneftegas), investing 300,000 rubles with the ultimate goal of increasing the trans
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And again in 2017 that Russia should recognize the independence of Moldova's breakaway region of Transnistria
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Having asked the Russian army to strike the Georgian General Staff, called Georgians "rodents" and requesting that all Georgian citizens be expelled from Russia
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Oleg Navalny made an offer to Yves Rocher Vostok, the Eastern European subsidiary of Yves Rocher between 2008 and 2012, to accredit Glavpodpiska, which was created by Navalny, with delivering duties
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2007· 1 entry
Navalny co-founded the National Russian Liberation Movement, known as NAROD (The People), which sets immigration policy as a priority
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2005· 1 entry
Navalny started another youth social movement, named "DA
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2004· 1 entry
Became Deputy Chief of the Moscow branch of the party
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2003· 1 entry
Headed the Moscow subdivision of the election campaign of the party for the parliamentary election held in December
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2002· 1 entry
Was elected to the regional council of the Moscow branch of Yabloko
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2001· 1 entry
Studied at Finance University under the Government of the Russian Federation (1999–2001).
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2000· 1 entry
Following the announcement of a new law that raised the electoral threshold for State Duma elections, Navalny joined the Russian United Democratic Party Yabloko
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1998· 1 entry
Studied at Peoples' Friendship University of Russia (1998).
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1979· 1 entry
Describing both events as a distraction to the population from real issues
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1976· 2 entries
Born 1976-06-04.
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“s breakaway region of Transnistria. Ukraine In early 2012, Navalny said on Ukrainian TV that”
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