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Navalny Vs. Putin Russia In Turmoil | R G Gidadhubli
Friday 12 February 2021
by R.G.Gidadhubli Alexei Navalny has hit the media headlines both in Russia and abroad in January 2021. Hence several questions arise. Why Navalny has gained so much immense popularity both domestically in Russia and globally? At the same time why despite getting immense popularity, he has been facing repeated punishment of imprisonment by the Russian government? An effort has been made to enquire and seek answers to these questions.
Navalny Contentions 44-year-old law graduate from Moscow, Alexei Navalny’s rise as a force in Russian politics began in 2008 when he started an anti-corruption campaign and formed Anti-Corruption Foundation (FBK) to promote and carry out his objective and activities. After, over a decade of having started this organisation, he has emerged as a political activist in Russia gaining huge populari
More than 5,600 demonstrators were arrested in anti-government protests that pose a major challenge to Russian President Vladimir Putin.
People attend a protest against the jailing of opposition leader Alexei Navalny in Moscow, Russia, on Sunday. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko)
(CN) For the second weekend in a row, Russia was jarred by large-scale protests sparked by the arrest of opposition leader Alexei Navalny and anger over government corruption.
By Monday, OVD-Info, a Russian human rights group, reported 5,646 protesters had been detained across Russia during protests on Sunday in subzero temperatures. The previous weekend saw more than 4,000 detentions of protesters, OVD-Info said. The group called the wave of detentions unprecedented.
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KALININGRAD, RUSSIA – JANUARY 23, 2021: A woman holds a toilet brush as she takes part in an unauthorized rally in support of Russian opposition activist Alexei Navalny. Vitaly Nevar/TASS (Photo by Vitaly Nevar\TASS via Getty Images)
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Two days after Alexey Navalny, head of Russia’s Anti-Corruption Foundation (FBK) was arrested on his return to Moscow from Berlin, he released a video expose that shocked Russians and people around the world. In the video, “Putin’s palace. History of the world’s largest bribe,” Navalny alleged that an opulent property near Gelendzhik, a town in the southern Russian region of Krasnodar, was constructed for Russian President Vladimir Putin with illicit funds of $1.35 billion, provided by members of his inner circle, and that Putin is the real owner of the palace.