Alexei Navalny
Alexei Navalny
Alexei Anatolievich Navalnyis a Russian lawyer, political and financial activist, and politician. Since 2009, he has gained prominence in Russia, and in the Russian and international media, as a critic of corruption and of Russian President Vladimir Putin. He has organized large-scale demonstrations promoting democracy and attacking political corruption, Putin, and Putin's political allies; he has run for a political office on the same platform. In 2012, The Wall Street Journal described him as "the man Vladimir Putin fears most"...
NationalityRussian
ProfessionActivist
CountryRussian Federation
The questioning is a stupid formality aimed exclusively at preventing us from speaking at the demonstration.
I'm not going to appeal to violence or aggression - of course not.
I'm on the very blackest part of the black list.
Anyone who commits a xenophobic crime has to be brought to justice.
I think very poorly of United Russia. United Russia is the party of corruption, the party of crooks and thieves. And it is the duty of every patriot and citizen of our country to make sure that this party is destroyed.
Nobody wants a political prisoner, but a political emigrant is no problem.
People don't believe in positive changes anymore.
Xenophobia is fairly widespread in Russia.
People hate politicians. And I can understand why.
We've grown accustomed to injustice in Russia. People are constantly being arrested unlawfully.
Without any doubt, I am striving for power.
Since Russia has the largest number of illegal immigrants, second only to the US, and immigrants from Central Asia bring in drugs, I'm calling for a visa requirement for all those wonderful people from Tajikistan and Uzbekistan.
Consistency for me is everything.
Politics is traditionally a male domain in Russia. Until now, women have only been accessories. Now, female protest groups are emerging - not because men came up with the idea, but through their own efforts. That's something new for Russia.