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Alexei Navalny Facts
* Critic and blogger of the Russian regime. (41). Lawyer.
* Lives in Moscow, is married and has two children.
* He started an anti-corruption campaign in 2007 buying state-controlled companies to ask critical questions at general meetings.
* In 2008 excluded from the liberal Jabloko party, where he had been active since 2000, accused of harming the party with his nationalist tendencies.
* Central to the demonstrations against Russian President Vladimir Putin in 2011 and 2012.
* Leader of the small Partija Progressa since its constitution in 2013.
* He received 27 percent of the vote in the Moscow mayoral elections in September 2013.
* Has been involved in various lawsuits. He himself claims that these have been politically motivated.
* He was sentenced in 2013 to five years probation for embezzlement, but Russia’s high court overturned the verdict in November 2015 and sent the case to a lower court.
* In December 2014, Navalny received a new suspended sentence of three and a half years for embezzlement, while his brother, Oleg, was sentenced to three and a half years of unconditional prison.
* On February 8, 2016, Navalny was found guilty when the 2013 case was reexamined, preventing him from running for office.
* The Supreme Court overturned the verdict against him in November 2016 and requested a new treatment.
* In December 2016, Navalny announced his candidacy for the 2018 presidential election, but it depends on the verdict against him being overturned in order for him to be eligible for the election.
* In February 2017, the Kirov city court again sentenced him to probation.
* Navalny appealed to the Supreme Court and the European Court of Human Rights, which in February 2016 ruled that the original 2014 ruling was illegal.
