Alexei Navalny: Tech-savvy anti-corruption fighter and thorn in Putin's side
In 2013 he came second in Moscow mayoral elections and then spent the following year under house arrest on fraud charges.Navalny weaponised the internet and took on Putin: A 2017 video exposing an empire of palaces belonging to former Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev was viewed more than 30 million times.
Another tactic of Navalny's has been to buy a small number of shares in Russian oil companies or banks and then ask awkward questions at AGMs. But, as successful as he has been in building a movement against Putin, Navalny has never taken him on head-to-head. In 2018 he was barred from running against Putin in presidential elections, leading to protests on the streets of Moscow.Poisoning is a common tactic used by Russia to eliminate opponents - the 2006 assassination of Alexander Litvinenko and March 2018 attack on
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