according to youtube. the putin government has not appreciated any of it, as you might imagine. and so, a series of increasingly unfortunate events started to befall alexey navalny. you ll remember nemtsov was killed in 2015. well, in 2017, navalny was opening up a new headquarters for his opposition group. somebody approached him to come up and shake his hand. when navalny obliged, the unknown assailant doused him with a chemical that dyed his hand and his whole face bright green. but that did not stop him. he didn t wait even for the dye to wear off before he resumed his political action against putin. he said that he was going to embrace it. he said it made him look like a super hero. he took lots and lots of selfies, he recorded videos. his supporters started painting their own faces green in solidarity with him. but then just a month later, another assailant attacked alexey navalnyith more green dye, and this time, navalny said it, quote, hurt like hell.