Alexei Navalny

**Alexei Anatolievich Navalny** (рус. Алексей Анатольевич Навальный) (4 June 1976 – 16 February 2024) was a Russian lawyer, politician, and activist. He was a known critic of President Vladimir Putin.

## Early life

Navalny was born in Butyn to a Ukrainian father and Russian mother. In 1993 he started his law degree at Peoples’ Friendship University, in Moscow. In 1998 he graduated. In 2000, Navalny joined the Russian United Democratic Party, "Yabloko".

## Career

He became known through his LiveJournal blog. In 2012, _The Wall Street Journal_ described him as "the man Vladimir Putin fears most." In September 2013 Navalny came second in the Moscow mayoral election. Navalny is a Russian Opposition Coordination Council member. He is a Yale World Fellow. 60 Minutes called Navalny ‘’the man trying to beat Putin’ in a program aired in December 2017.

He was a candidate for President of Russia in the 2018 election. He ran against President Vladimir Putin.

In January 2021, he published his investigation about Putin's palace. Because of it, rallies of Navalny's supporters had been started.

## Personal life

Navalny was poisoned by Putin on August 2020. After this incident and being in the hospital, Navalny went to prison on political ground.

He had two children and a wife. He met his wife after a vacation in Turkey in 1999.

## 2020 poisoning and arrest

On 20 August 2020, Navalny was poisoned during a flight from Tomsk, Siberia to Moscow and was hospitalized in Omsk. He was soon in a coma, on a ventilator. On 7 September 2020, he woke up from the coma, and on 14 September, he was taken off the ventilator. He was released on 22 September.

On 17 January 2021, he went back to Russia, where he was arrested for going against terms of a suspended jail sentence.

On 4 August 2023, Navalny was given an increased sentence of 19 years in prison for extremism charges.

## Death

On 16 February 2024, the Russian prison service announced that Navalny had died in prison in Yamalo-Nenets, after taking a walk and feeling unwell in the morning. At the age of 48

## Awards

- Sakharov Prize (2021)

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## Other websites

- https://www.politico.eu/article/russian-election-alexei-navalnys-final-plan-to-cause-vladimir-putin-maximum-damage/. March 14, 2024
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bHOvv42JOE4
http://www.rbc.ru/politics/05/03/2012/5703f44c9a7947ac81a658a3
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jt2pfM3ug5w
http://video.mail.ru/bk/sbliz/video/2789/2785.html
http://www.youtube.com/channel/UCsAw3WynQJMm7tMy093y37A
http://www.youtube.com/channel/UCgxTPTFbIbCWfTR9I2-5SeQ
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zT1g1oht5a4

## Infobox (youtube personality)

- **embed**: yes
- **channel direct url**: c/АлексейНавальный
- **channel display name**: Алексей Навальный
- **subscribers**: 6.21 million
- **subscriber date**: 16 February 2024
- **views**: 1.49 billion
- **view date**: 16 February 2024
- **silver button**: yes
- **gold button**: yes
- **gold year**: 2018


## Infobox (officeholder)

- **name**: Alexei Navalny
- **native name lang**: ru
- **image**: Alexey Navalny (cropped) 1.jpg
- **caption**: Navalny in 2011
- **office**: Leader of Russia of the Future
- **term start**: 28 March 2019
- **term end**: 17 January 2021
- **deputy**: Leonid Volkov (politician), Leonid Volkov
- **predecessor**: Ivan Zhdanov
- **successor**: Leonid Volkov (politician), Leonid Volkov (acting)
- **term start1**: 17 November 2013
- **term end1**: 19 May 2018
- **predecessor1**: Office established
- **successor1**: Ivan Zhdanov
- **office2**: Chairman of the Session of the Russian Opposition Coordination Council
- **term start2**: 27 October
- **term end2**: 24 November 2012
- **predecessor2**: Office established
- **successor2**: Garry Kasparov
- **office3**: Member of the Russian Opposition Coordination Council
- **term start3**: 22 October 2012
- **term end3**: 19 October 2013
- **office4**: Freelance Advisor to the Governor of Kirov Oblast
- **governor4**: Nikita Belykh
- **term start4**: 4 May
- **term end4**: 11 September 2009
- **office5**: Chief of Staff of the Yabloko Moscow Regional Branch
- **term start5**: 12 April 2004
- **term end5**: 22 February 2007
- **birth place**: Butyn, Russia, Butyn, Odintsovsky District, Moscow Oblast, Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union
- **death place**: FKU IK-3, Kharp, FKU IK-3, Kharp, Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug, Russia
- **nationality**: Russian
- **children**: 2
- **residence**: Moscow
- **known for**: Anti-corruption activism
- **awards**: * Yale World Fellow (2010)
* Knight of Freedom Award (2021)
* Sakharov Prize (2021)
- **signature**: Signature of Alexei Navalny.svg
- **website**: , [https://www.youtube.com/c/NavalnyLiveChannel NavalnyLiveChannel]