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Alexei Navalny (born 4 June 1976) is a Russian lawyer, political and financial activist, and politician. Since 2009, he has gained prominence in Russia, and in the Russian and international media, as a critic of corruption and of Russian President Vladimir Putin. He has organized large-scale demonstrations promoting democracy and attacking political corruption, Putin, and Putin's political allies; and has run for political office on the same platform. In 2012, The Wall Street Journal described him as "the man Vladimir Putin fears most."
The Anti-Corruption Foundation, the brainchild of Russian top political blogger and opposition activist Alexey Navalny, has been explaining the essence of each stage of Western sanctions against Russia over the Ukrainian crisis. As new...
Recently the sanctions against Russia really hit home when the low-cost airline Dobrolyot suspended all flights, leaving thousands of tourists stranded abroad. In response, Moscow threatened to suspend European airlines’...
In 2014, after the first Russian invasion of Ukrainian territory in the Donbas, soldiers who had lost limbs in battle were seen for the first time in public as they returned home. Since the full-on invasion by Russia in February 2022, the...
