FOUNDER OF ANTI-CORRUPTION FOUNDATION, CHAIRMAN OF PROGRESS PARTY.
Alexey Navalny — professional lawyer, public figure, popular blogger, creator and head of anti-corruption projects RosPil, RosYama and RosZhKH. In 2013 he ran for mayor of Moscow and took 2nd place. According to the independent polling center Levada, 46% of Russians see Navalny’s legal prosecution to be caused by his anti-corruption campaigning.
«To fight corruption you need two main things — political competition and independent media. There are almost no independent media in Russia. Therefore, we need to try to create political competition».
Interviews
- BLACKLIST PUTIN LOYALISTS, SAYS NAVALNY Financial Times
- PUTIN’S COLOSSUS WILL CRUMBLE, KREMLIN FOE NAVALNY SAYS Bloomberg
- LONELY BUT NOT LOST The Economist
- AN INTERVIEW WITH KREMLIN CRITIC ALEXEI NAVALNY The Washington Post
- PUTIN IS DESTROYING RUSSIA. WHY BASE HIS REGIME ON CORRUPTION?’ ASKS NAVALNY The Guardian
- Alexey Navalny’s Very Strange Form of Freedom The New Yorker