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The Political Journey of Russia's Alexei Navalny

Described by The Wall Street Journal as the “ the man Vladimir Putin fears most ” Alexei Anatolievich Navalny is currently Russia’s most popular opposition leader. Navalny has been attacked, jailed and detained several times. He is a trained lawyer, anti-corruption activists, and blogger. His blogging has highlighted the cronyism of the Russian oligarch’s and has vehemently criticized Vladimir Putin’s authoritarian regime. After getting recovered from a nerve agent attack. Navalny returned from Germany and was again arrested by the Russian authorities. Later, he was sentenced to prison for two and a half years which ignited a nationwide protest. Source: Reuters Navalny got into politics in 2000 after joining the liberal Yabloko party , a Russian liberal and generally pro-Western political party. During the period he voiced for ideals of liberalism. However, he was expelled from the party for nationalist activities and couldn’t bring any political mileage from that time. After fai...