Alexei Anatolyevich Navalny [c] [d] (Russian: Алексей Анатольевич Навальный, IPA: [ɐlʲɪkˈsʲej ɐnɐˈtolʲjɪvʲɪtɕ nɐˈvalʲnɨj]; 4 June 1976 – 16 February 2024) was a Russian opposition leader, [2] [3] anti-corruption activist and political prisoner. [4]

Mar 11, 2024 · Alexei Navalny was a hero in Russia, despite his complex history. He held some abhorrent beliefs that should certainly be recognized and condemned, but we must not forget that he was also the reason many Russians are getting politically involved and feeling motivated to protest the Putin regime, a regime that has done way more harm to Russia ...

Jan 17, 2025 · Aleksey Navalny (1976–2024) was a Russian anti-corruption activist and politician who achieved international recognition as one of the most prominent domestic critics of Russian Pres. Vladimir Putin.

Jan 28, 2021 · Despite facing repression, Alexei Navalny is no hero. Russian writer Katya Kazbek reveals the Western-backed opposition figure’s real history. This interview was originally published at Royce Kurmelovs’ Raising Hell Substack newsletter and republished with permission.

Feb 24, 2021 · Alexei Navalny, who was almost killed in a nerve agent attack last year, is now serving a prison sentence widely seen as punishment for his opposition activism and big-splash investigations...

Feb 20, 2024 · On February 16, the world was shocked by the news that Alexei Navalny, one of Putin’s most outspoken and well-known critics, had died while in detention in a remote prison in Siberia. He was 47.

On 16 February 2024, at 14:19 Moscow time (11:19 GMT), the Russian Federal Penitentiary Service (FSIN) of the Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug announced that Russian opposition activist and political prisoner Alexei Navalny died while serving a 19-year prison sentence in corrective colony FKU IK-3, in the village of Kharp in the Russian Arctic. [2...

Feb 16, 2024 · Longtime Putin critic Alexei Navalny has died in prison at the age of 47, sparking outrage inside and outside of Russia. While widely esteemed for his courage challenging the Kremlin, the...

Oct 11, 2024 · On August 20, 2020, during a flight from the Siberian city of Tomsk to Moscow, the Russian opposition leader and anticorruption campaigner Alexei Navalny thought he was dying––he was...

Oct 22, 2024 · During those years, he became Putin’s chief adversary, Russia’s most popular politician, and a hero to young Russians. He infuriated thousands of officials and fell out with hundreds of ...