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The lawyer who fought corruption: Navalny, the man who harassed Putin for a decade
The lawyer, who studied in the United States, grew up in a wave of protests against the Russian president at the beginning of the previous decade, and has since been imprisoned many times.
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- Alexei Navalny
- Vladimir Putin
Reuters
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Alexei Navalny has been the Kremlin's biggest nuisance for more than a decade, exposing alleged corruption at the highest levels and recruiting masses of young people in a country where the opposition has no significant power. The 44-year-old lawyer, who has been in a coma since Thursday after being allegedly poisoned, has never challenged President Vladimir Putin at the polls, but is the most senior leader among the camp of crumbling government.
As part of a new generation ready to take to the streets to make his voice heard, he stood out in a wave of protests against Putin in December 2011, 12 years after the former KGB officer came to power. He was one of the first protest leaders arrested, and Emerged as a hero, the protesters called his name, and he delivered enthusiastic speeches that received high applause.
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Failed to attract audiences outside of major cities. Nabalani (Photo: Reuters)With the fading of protests in the spring of 2012, Putin returned to the Kremlin as president, and Navalny established himself as the undisputed leader of the opposition, which operated largely without official structures. His status deteriorated due to internal disputes and conflicts between the various factions. Other opposition figures have questioned Navalny's ability to attract supporters outside Russia's major cities.
He has been repeatedly arrested for organizing public rallies and rallies and has been sued for corruption investigations he posted on his YouTube channel and garnered millions of views. Navalny was disqualified from running in the 2018 presidential election and jailed last summer for calling for a mass protest in Moscow, which attracted tens of thousands of people.
The Anti-Corruption Foundation was convicted of violating the Foreign Agents Act and he was convicted of corruption in 2013. Navalny's supporters said this case and other cases were politically motivated.
"Putin is very angry and stomping on his feet," he said last year after police raided the homes and offices of his supporters across Russia. Authorities said it was an investigation into suspected money laundering in his fund.
Four days earlier, he had led a tactical vote that undermined Putin's party's control of Moscow's city council.
Harpster is the son of an army officer, and is grown mainly in the city Aobinsk hundred kilometers southwest of Moscow. After studying law, he received a scholarship to Yale University. Supporters Kremlin said that this evidence is "foreign agent".
In 2007, He was expelled from the Liberal Party "Block" because of his nationalist views, but he has softened them ever since.
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