How Alexei Navalny became Putin's greatest threat
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Published 2021-02-26
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In 2006, a lawyer named Alexei Navalny started a blog where he wrote about corruption in his home country of Russia. It’s the most prominent problem under the regime of Vladimir Putin, who has ruled Russia since 2000. Putin has systematically taken over the country’s independent media, oligarchy, elections, and laws to cement his own power and wield corruption to his advantage.
That’s what Navalny set out to expose. And in 2010, he published a groundbreaking investigation into a state-owned transportation company, Transneft, which was funneling state money into the hands of its executives. The post launched Navalny into politics.
By 2016, he had become the face of Russia’s opposition movement, run for mayor, and was running for president against Putin himself. Navalny was unifying Russia’s opposition like no politician had before. That’s why the Kremlin tried to kill him. Navalny survived the assassination attempt, launching a movement never before seen in Russia.
Further reading:
Alex Ward, Vox, www.vox.com/22254292/alexei-navalny-russia-protest…
Frontline, www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/interview/vladimir-kara…
Bellingcat, www.bellingcat.com/news/uk-and-europe/2020/12/14/f…
Levada Center,
www.dropbox.com/s/xj4ptyse6wob6u9/united_russia_as…
Atlantic, www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2013/07/…
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Masha Gessen, the NYer, www.newyorker.com/news/our-columnists/across-russi…
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All Comments (21)
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427 Billions in corruption, man thats not a corruption its a GDP of a nation.
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The person who came up such a creative idea of using cards to explain this deserve a raise...
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Came back to this video after hearing about this passing
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Anyone who doesn't fully agree with Putin: breathes Putin: Wouldn't that make you... an EMBEZZLER?
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Headlines should have read: Alexei Navalny arrested for not dying after being poisoned by Putin.
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"when you attempt to silence a man, you only show that you fear what he has to say"
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Who's here after his death? RIP to the closest person Russia had to a real opposition to Putin.
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dead at 47, but his impact will ripple forever. Navalny is a madman for challenging a leader like Putin.
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No matter your opinion on Vox gotta admit their animation team kills it every time with the simple but effective presentation style.
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I think you missed an important point. When he returned to Russia, his plane was diverted to another airport so the media that was waiting for him, couldn't cover his arrest.
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RIP Nawalny, the last hope for Russia. Even in the most hopeless situations he was strong. He may be dead, but this man will always be a legend. 🕊️ Мы не боимся
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this literally sounds like the plot of a kind of political action movie
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Alexei's health bar must be enormous Edit: this didn't age well
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What a brave man Alexei Navalny is; an inspiration to all of us.
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My fantasy is that of Presidents Navalny and Zelenskyy shaking hands in peacetime.
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The "Ace" and the "King" comparison was very clever. Great piece everyone!
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Navalny was taken from his Moscow prison cell yesterday and has disappeared. The authorities are refusing to say where they have taken him.
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If there was ever a time to re-release this, it's now.
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Shame Alexei is still behind bars. He's a very hard man to have survived. Maybe he'll get out soon.
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I'm from Germany and I have a detail to add. After it became publicly known that Nawalny had been poisoned, the minister of foreign affairs of Russia implied that actually Naealny had been poisoned in the German hospital where his life has been saved. Unimaginable.
