- Alexei Navalny is the most vocal and effective critic of Russia’s government and President Vladimir Putin. He is in pre-trial detention after returning to Russia from Berlin, where he was treated for the near-fatal effects of a military-grade nerve toxin that he had been given while travelling within Russia.Navalny, 44, is best known in Russia for producing detailed investigations into corruption, which get millions of views on his YouTube channel.
When demonstrations against Putin flared in December 2011, after an election tainted by fraud, he was one of the first protest leaders arrested.Having emerged as one of the figureheads of a divided opposition, he ran for mayor of Moscow in 2013. He lost to the Kremlin-backed Sergei Sobyanin, but received 27% of the vote despite getting little or no coverage on the state-controlled main media outlets.
Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny is escorted by police officers after a court hearing, in Khimki outside Moscow, Russia January 18, 2021. Evgeny Feldman/Meduza/Handout via REUTERSNavalny has been detained countless times for organising public rallies, and prosecuted repeatedly on charges that he says are politically motivated.
Last August, Navalny fell ill on a flight from Tomsk, in Siberia. The pilot made an emergency landing, saving his life, and Navalny was flown to Berlin, where he was treated for the effects of a neurotoxin that German military tests showed to be Novichok, a poison developed in the Soviet Union.
Navalny is a USA tool. That’s why western media and govts take such an interest in him.
LOL liars. How effective can he be when he only polls at 2%?
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