Alexey Navalny: his life in data

Navalny returns to court after his hunger strike 1:32 (CNN) — Here’s a look at the key facts about Alexey Navalny (sometimes spelled Alexei, Aleksei), Russia’s opposition leader and critic of the Kremlin. . Personal details Date of birth: June 4, 1976 Place of birth: Butyn, Soviet Union Birth name: Alexey Anatolyevich Navalny (sometimes spelled Alexei, Aleksei) Father: Anatoly Navalny, former military officer and owner of a basket weaving factory Mother: Lyudmila Navalnaya, owner of a basket weaving factory Wife: Yulia (Alexandrovich) Navalnaya (2000-present) Children: Daria and Zakhar Education: Peoples’ Friendship University of Russia, business law, 1998; attended the State Academy of Finance, 1999-2001 Other facts about the life of Alexey Navalny He has been a prominent organizer of street protests and has exposed corruption in Russian government and business through social media, including his blog LiveJournal and the RosPil website. He says he defends his earlier anti-immigration comments, seen as xenophobic, such as the deportation of Georgians from Russia. He has apologized for using derogatory terms. He is barred from running for political office because of a 2013 conviction. Russian law bars convicted felons from running for political office. His life before the assassination attempt 2000-he Joins Yabloko, the United Democratic Party of Russia. 2006-he participates in the Russian March, a nationalist event. 2007-He is expelled from Yabloko because of his nationalist leanings. 2007 – Launches the National Movement for the Liberation of Russia, (known as NAROD, the Russian word for “people”). 2009 – Political adviser to the governor of the Kirov region. November 2010- He denounces an embezzlement of US $ 4,000 million in the state oil pipeline company Transneft, publishing leaked documents on his blog. December 2010-The Kirov area opens an investigation against him in connection with a state-owned timber business when he was an adviser to the governor. December 5, 2011 – Participates in the protests after the electoral victory of Vladimir Putin on December 4. He is arrested, but is released after 15 days. 2011 – Founds the Anticorruption Foundation (FBK). The organization investigates corruption in the Russian government and publishes supporting documentation. Dec. 24, 2011 – Speaks to tens of thousands of pro-reform protesters ahead of March 2012 presidential election. March 6, 2012 – Arrested along with other protesters after Putin won a third term as president on March 4, with just under 65% of the vote. Critics question the results amid allegations of voter fraud. March 20, 2013 – He is accused, along with businessman Petr Ofitserov, of embezzling US$500,000 in a state-owned timber deal when he was an adviser to the governor of the Kirov region. July 18, 2013 – A Kirov city court finds Navalny and Ofitserov guilty of embezzlement. They are sentenced to five and four years in prison respectively. Detained overnight, they are released on July 19 pending an appeal. The verdict is followed by public protests. 2013 – Unsuccessfully runs for mayor of Moscow. He comes in second with 27% of the votes. Oct 16, 2013 – The five-year prison sentence received in July 2013 is reduced to a suspended sentence on appeal. October 2013-In a statement by the Russian Federal Investigative Committee, Navalny and his brother Oleg Navalny are accused of defrauding the Russian subsidiary of the French cosmetics company Yves Rocher. February 28, 2014-January 2015 – Under house arrest. December 30, 2014 – He is convicted of fraud in the November 2013 case. He receives a three-and-a-half year suspended sentence. His brother receives a sentence of three and a half years in prison. February 23, 2016 – The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) rules that Navalny and Ofitserov were deprived of the right to a fair trial in their 2013 conviction. They are awarded €8,000 in damages, in addition to additional compensation for costs and expenses. April 27, 2017 – Navalny is splashed in the face with green antiseptic liquid. The attack damages the vision in one eye. January 22, 2018 – A Moscow court orders the closure of FBK, which finances the activities of Alexey Navalny. July 29, 2019 – He suffers an “acute allergic reaction” while serving a 30-day sentence in police custody. His arrest on July 24 comes after demonstrations have been called following the disqualification of opposition candidates from the Russian municipal elections. Doctors find no signs of poisoning after testing, Russia’s TASS news agency reports. Alexey Navalny: poisoning and weather in Germany August 20, 2020-He feels unwell during a flight back to Moscow from the Siberian city of TomskIn and falls into a coma due to suspected poisoning, according to spokeswoman Kira Yarmysh. “We assume that Alexey was poisoned with something mixed in [su] tea,” Yarmysh tweeted. German NGO The Cinema for Peace Foundation says it is sending a medical plane to Russia to try to evacuate him. August 21, 2020 – Russian doctors give Navalny’s team permission to move him. A medical evacuation is planned to travel to a German clinic, according to -0Yarmysh.-0wew3 August 22, 2020 – Arrives at the Charité Hospital in Berlin, Germany, where a “thorough medical diagnosis” is carried out September 2, 2020 – In a statement, the The German government reports that Navalny was poisoned with a nerve agent from the Novichok group, which was used in the March 2018 attack on former Russian spy Sergei Skripal and his daughter, Yulia Skripal, in the English cathedral city of Salisbury. September 2020 – According to a statement issued by the Charité Hospital, Navalny comes out of a medically induced coma September 23, 2020 – He is discharged from the hospital, according to a statement issued by the Charité Hospital. December 14, 2020 – Reports from CNN and the investigative group Bellingcat reveal that Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB) formed an elite team specializing in nerve agents and followed Navalny for years. Phone and travel records suggest the unit followed Navalny in at least 17 cities since 2017. December 17, 2020 – In his annual press conference, Putin says that if the Russian special services had wanted to kill Navalny, “probably they would have… but in this case, his wife asked me, and I immediately gave the order to let him leave the country to be treated in Germany…”. This is a trick to attack the leaders [en Rusia]The CNN-Bellingcat investigation is a form of “information warfare” facilitated by foreign special services, it says. December 21, 2020 – CNN reports that Konstantin Kudryavtsev, an agent who belonged to an elite team of toxins in Russia’s FSB, revealed details of how Navalny was poisoned during an interrogation, but did not realize he was talking to Navalny himself Navalny’s cinematic hoax of Russian agent 4:50December 28, 2020 – The Federal Penitentiary Service of Russia (FSIN) accuses Navalny of violating the terms of his probation by failing to appear for scheduled inspections while in Germany and requests that a court replace his suspended sentence with an actual prison term.December 29, 2020 – The Russia’s top investigative body launches criminal case against Navalny on fraud charges related to his alleged mismanagement of $5 million in donations to the F BK and other organizations. Return to Russia and trial January 2021 – Russia’s prison authorities officially request that Navalny’s 2014 suspended sentence be replaced by an effective prison sentence. The Russian Federal Penitentiary Service says that by remaining in Germany, Navalny is violating the terms of his suspended sentence in the so-called Yves Rocher case, which Navalny believes is politically motivated. January 13, 2021-Announces on social media that he will return to Russia from Germany on January 17. January 17, 2021 – Navalny is arrested moments after arriving in Moscow after months of treatment in Germany after being poisoned in August 2020. The next day, he is ordered to remain in pretrial detention for 30 days during a surprise hearing. February 2, 2021-A Moscow court sentences Alexey Navalny to more than two and a half years in prison for violating the terms of his parole since 2014 while he was in Germany. The sentence takes into account the 11 months that Navalny spent under house arrest. His attorney says he will appeal the verdict. The sentence sparks protests across the country. February 20, 2021 – Navalny’s appeal partially rejected. The judge reduces his sentence by a month and a half, taking into account the time he spent under house arrest, from December 2014 to February 2015. In another hearing in the Babushkinsky District Court, he is convicted of defaming the veteran of World War II Ignat Artemenko, 94, in social media comments made in June 2020. Navalny criticized a video broadcast by the state television channel RT, in which prominent figures expressed their support for the controversial changes in the Constitution of Russia. The penalty for defamation, a fine, was changed to include possible jail time in December 2020. 24 February 2021 – According to Reuters, Amnesty International strips Navalny of his “prisoner of conscience” status. The decision was made due to numerous complaints about Navalny’s previous xenophobic comments received by the organization. March 3, 2021 – Navalny’s lawyer, Vadim Kobzev, tells CNN that Navalny is being held at Kolchugino Detention Center 3 in the Vladimir region, east of Moscow. Navalny will be temporarily held before being transferred to a penal colony. March 31, 2021-Navalny, who is imprisoned in Pokrov penal colony No. 2, says he is going on a hunger strike to protest prison officials’ refusal to grant him access to proper medical care. April 23, 2021-Navalny announces that he ends his hunger strike after receiving medical attention. Alexey Navalny abandons his hunger strike 0:35April 26, 2021-Moscow’s chief prosecutor freezes Navalny’s political movement by suspending the activities of his offices across the country.