Alexei Navalny

Navalny, 44, an anti-corruption campaigner who is Russian President Vladimir Putin’s most determined political foe

His return to Moscow and immediate arrest on 17 January, after five months recovering in Berlin from a near-fatal nerve agent attack, triggered mass protests across Russia by his supporters. Police responded with force and thousands were detained for attending the unauthorized rallies.

He says Mr. Putin's United Russia party is full of "crooks and thieves" and accuses the president of "sucking the blood out of Russia" through a "feudal state" concentrating power in the Kremlin. That patronage system, he claims, is like tsarist Russia.

He speaks the street language of younger Russians and uses it to powerful effect on social media. His Anti-Corruption Foundation (FBK) has made detailed claims about official corruption.

They include the recent "Putin's palace" video on YouTube about a vast luxury Black Sea palace, allegedly gifted to Mr. Putin by rich associates. Its comforts are said to include a skating rink, casino, and vineyard.

More than 100m people have viewed that video, published after Navalny's arrest. The Kremlin dismissed it as a "pseudo-investigation" and Mr. Putin called it "boring", denying the claims. Later billionaire businessman Arkady Rotenberg, one of Mr. Putin's closest friends, said it was his own palace.


Navalny told that the best thing Western states could do for justice in Russia was to crack down on "dirty money".

"I want people involved in corruption and persecution of activists to be barred from entering these countries, to be denied visas."

 

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