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* Critic of the Russian regime and blogger (44) with millions of followers on Twitter and YouTube. Trained attorney.
* Lives in Moscow, is married and has two children.
* Started an anti-corruption campaign in 2007 by buying state-controlled companies to ask critical questions at general meetings.
* Has organized a series of demonstrations against President Vladimir Putin.
* In 2008 excluded from the liberal Jabloko party, where he had been active since 2000, accused of harming the party with his nationalist tendencies.
* Leader of the small Partija Progressa – the Progress Party – since its creation in 2013.
* Received 27 percent of the vote in the Moscow mayoral elections in September 2013.
* You have been arrested and taken to court for embezzlement on several occasions. Sentenced to parole in July 2013 and December 2014. He himself claims they were politically motivated.
* He wanted to run as a presidential candidate and challenge Putin in the 2018 elections, but the candidacy was not approved.
* In May 2018, he was sentenced to 30 days in prison after being arrested during an anti-Putin demonstration in Moscow.
* Nominated for the Sakharov Prize in 2019.
(Source: NTB, Store norske leksikon, Wikipedia)
