Alexei Navalny
Russian opposition leader and activist
Alexei Navalny was a Russian lawyer and campaigner against corruption who opposed Vladimir Putin's government and founded the Anti-Corruption Foundation (FBK).
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Born 1976 in Butyn, Russia Died 2024
About Alexei Navalny
Alexei Navalny was born on 4 June 1976 in Butyn, Moscow Oblast, and died on 16 February 2024. He founded the Anti-Corruption Foundation in 2011 and led the Russia of the Future party. He ran in the 2013 Moscow mayoral election, finishing second, and was later barred from the 2018 presidential election. He received the European Parliament's Sakharov Prize for his human rights work, and Amnesty International recognized him as a prisoner of conscience. In August 2020 he was poisoned with a Novichok nerve agent and treated in Berlin. He returned to Russia in January 2021 and was detained, and he remained in prison until the Russian prison service reported his death in 2024. Patriot is the book of his in our catalog.