How Alexei Navalny became Putin's greatest threat

Navalny's movement is unlike any in recent history.

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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, https://www.vox.com/22254292/alexei-n...

Frontline, https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/in...

Bellingcat, https://www.bellingcat.com/news/uk-an...

Levada Center,
https://www.dropbox.com/s/xj4ptyse6wo...

Atlantic, https://www.theatlantic.com/internati...

Alexei Navalny,    • Дворец для Путина. История самой боль...  

Masha Gessen, the NYer, https://www.newyorker.com/news/our-co...

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