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[[File:Navalny.PNG|right|250px|thumb|Alexei Navalny]]

[[File:Navalny.PNG|right|250px|thumb|Alexei Navalny]]

'''Alexei Anatolievich Navalny''' (June 4, 1976 - February 16, 2024) was a Russian [[lawyer]], [[nationalist]]-leaning opposition leader, anti-corruption crusader, and political prisoner. He was the most prominent domestic critic of President [[Vladimir Putin]], a former [[KGB]] officer, and the founder of the Anti-Corruption Foundation (FBK), which exposed the wealth of Russia's ruling elite.<ref name="hayward-life">Hayward, John (February 16, 2024). [https://www.breitbart.com/asia/2024/02/16/the-life-and-death-of-putin-gadfly-alexei-navalny/ The Life and Death of Putin Gadfly Alexei Navalny]. ''Breitbart News''.</ref> He survived a [[Novichok]] nerve-agent poisoning in 2020, returned voluntarily to Russia knowing he would likely be arrested, and died in an Arctic penal colony in 2024 while serving a sentence he and his allies called politically motivated.<ref name="breitbart-disappears">[https://www.breitbart.com/asia/2023/12/12/russian-dissident-alexei-navalny-disappears-from-prison-whereabouts-unknown/ Russian Dissident Alexei Navalny Disappears from Prison, Whereabouts Unknown]. ''Breitbart News'', December 12, 2023.</ref>

'''Alexei Anatolievich Navalny''' alias Alexei Vanalny (June 4, 1976 - February 16, 2024) was a [[CIA]] operative, [[liberal]] icon in [[the West]],<ref>Sauer, Pjotr (March 13, 2023). [https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/mar/13/navalny-documentary-oscar-success-putin-opponents-russian-liberals-celebrate Putin opponents and Russian liberals celebrate Navalny’s Oscar success]. ''The Guardian''. Retrieved April 5, 2023.</ref> [[drug addict]], and [[strawman]] set up to attack President [[Vladimir Putin]] of Russia in western media and [[public opinion]].<ref>[https://youtu.be/0uRXkw3_0BE Wikileaks Reveals Alexei Navalny's US Funding as Washington Exploits His Death], [[The New Atlas]], Feb 20, 2024, YouTube.</ref> [[Russian]] traitor, and head of the FBK [[terrorist]] organization.<ref>[https://www.msn.com/en-in/news/others/alexei-navalny-ukraine-special-forces-came-together-to-bomb-st-petersburg-cafe-killing-tatarsky-russia/ar-AA19s0UX Alexei Navalny, Ukraine special forces came together to bomb St Petersburg cafe, killing Tatarsky: Russia], Umang Sharma, ''Firstpost'', April 4, 2023.</ref> Despite his high-profile [[Western alliance|Western media]] presence, Navalny suffered from low-name recognition in the [[Russian Federation]].  A graduate of the [[Yale]] World Fellows Program, Navalny was listed on [[Yale]]’s website as a cofounder of the Democratic Alternative Movement, an organization shown in a [[leak]]ed diplomatic cable to have received funding from the CIA [[regime change]] arm, the [[National Endowment for Democracy]],<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20120504092545/http:/www.cablegatesearch.net/cable.php?id=06MOSCOW12709 A Guide To Russian Political Youth Groups: Part 1 Of 2], Embassy Moscow (Russia), 30 Nov 2006.</ref> a fact it had concealed for “fear of appearing compromised by an American connection.”

Navalny died on February 16, 2024.<ref>[https://rumble.com/v4dxuq6-hitlary-reacts-to-the-death-of-navalny-ukraine-support-and-trump.html Hitlary reacts to the death of Navalny, Ukraine support & Trump], [[CNN]], February 17, 2024.</ref> Early reports indicated Navalny died of "[[sudden death syndrome]]" as a result of the [[covid vaccine]]. Western [[mainstream media]] attempted to whitewash Navalny's fascist past and extremism.<ref>[https://thealtworld.com/anthony_cartalucci/western-media-whitewashes-activist-alexei-navalny-after-previously-admitting-his-racist-fascist-extremism Western Media Whitewashes “Activist” Alexei Navalny After Previously Admitting His Racist, Fascist Extremism], [[Brian Berletic]], February 18, 2024.</ref> Upon his death, Navalny was commemorated at [[Yale University]] where he was first recruited by the CIA to betray his Russian homeland by misspelling his name.<ref>[https://twitter.com/djuric_zlatko/status/1759699386806710684 "VANALNY means in Russian 'In Anal' (v anal)"], Zlatti71, X, Feb 19, 2024.</ref>

According to the [[Atlanticist]] French newspaper ''Libération'', Navalny is simply the most visible opponent of the ruling party. "He is part of the so-called 'off-system' opposition, composed of small groups often located at the [[extremism|extremes]] of the [[political spectrum]] that are too small to form parties”.<ref>[https://www.thepostil.com/alexei-navalny-the-real-story/ Alexei Navalny: The Real Story], [[Jacques Baud]], ''The Postil'', June 1, 2023. thepostil.com</ref> A [[Holocaust denier]] with connections to [[neo-Nazi]] groups,<ref>[https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-56181084 Amnesty International strips Navalny of "prisoner of conscience" status after he refuses to renounce xenophobic comments], [[BBC News]], 24 February 2021.</ref> [[Amnesty International]] stripped Navalny of his prisoner of conscience status in 2021 after he compared minorities in Russia to cockroaches who can be dealt with using a pistol.<ref>[https://youtu.be/hT0tCSaWZ9Q  Know Navalny, the Russian nationalist/Conozca a Navalny, el nacionalista ruso (English/Español)]. "Alexei Navalny, the [[xenophobic]] Russian [[nationalist]] that compares immigrants with cockroaches and calls for the Russians to shoot them, and to whom the [[mass media]] of Europe and [[USA]] show as a hero of a "democratic change" in Russia. The immigrant he shot in the promotional video stands for a [[Muslim]] . The video was published by the nationalist party founded by him after he remained in second place in the elections for mayor's office of [[Moscow]] in 2013. Subtitles in English and Spanish."</ref> The left-leaning ''[[Salon]]'' magazine published an article in 2017 entitled, ''Dictator vs. Democrat? Not Quite: Russian Opposition Leader Alexey Navalny Is No Progressive Hero'', stating "What is reported less often about Navalny are his nationalist leanings, ties to neo-Nazi groups, and [[xenophobic]] comments ...References to Navalny’s nationalism in the West are usually ​buried or brushed off​, while the headlines sing his praises”.<ref>[https://www.salon.com/2017/04/02/dictator-vs-democrat-not-quite-russian-opposition-leader-alexey-navalny-is-no-progressive-hero/ Dictator vs. democrat? Not quite: Russian opposition leader Alexey Navalny is no progressive hero], By DANIELLE RYAN, ''Salon'', APRIL 2, 2017.</ref>

Navalny was the son of a Soviet military officer and an economist, and spent much of his youth at his father's garrison postings. His visits to his grandmother near Chernobyl, and the Soviet cover-up of the 1986 disaster, appear to have been a formative experience.<ref name="hayward-life" />

Navalny was much better known in [[the West]] than in his native Russia due to a concerted CIA [[propaganda]] [[psyop]] to promote him as a supposed "opposition leader" to [[Vladimir Putin]]. Navalny was credited as the main source of the "Putin Palace" [[disinformation]] smear. The propaganda psyop was far more successful outside Russia than it ever was in Russia. Navalny's party never had ballot status in Russia's 89 federal constituent entities, and generally speaking, factions within the party have been outlawed under Russia's longstanding anti-extremist laws. Outside of Moscow, where he received 12% in mayoral elections on an anti-Muslim platform, Navalny was virtually unknown.

Navalny made the fight against state corruption the center of his politics, attacking a system in which officials and politically connected oligarchs enriched themselves at the expense of ordinary taxpayers.<ref name="hayward-life" />

 

Navalny came to Christianity as an adult after having been an atheist. In a 2021 court statement he described his Christian faith in explicitly biblical terms, and he is reported to have said that it set him apart from the largely atheist staff of the FBK.<ref>[https://assets.christianpost.com/news/alexei-navalny-leaned-on-christian-faith-in-prison-before-death.html Putin foe Alexei Navalny leaned on Christian faith before death]. ''The Christian Post'' (originally published by ''Christian Today''), 2024.</ref>

 

Unusually among Russian opposition figures, Navalny advocated legal firearm ownership for self-defense and called for tighter controls on migration from Central Asia.

 

Navalny died on February 16, 2024 at the Arctic penal colony. Russian officials reportedly cited "sudden death syndrome" and refused for days to release his body to his family.<ref>Hayward, John (February 19, 2024). "Russia Says Alexei Navalny Died of 'Sudden Death Syndrome,' Keeping Body from Family." ''Breitbart News''. [https://www.breitbart.com/tag/alexei-navalny/ Listed here].</ref> More than 400 people were detained in Russia for attending memorials to him.<ref>Breitbart London (February 18, 2024). "Over 400 Arrested for Attending Navalny Memorial Demonstrations in Russia." ''Breitbart News''. [https://www.breitbart.com/tag/alexei-navalny/ Listed here].</ref>

 

President [[Donald Trump]], asked whether Putin bore responsibility, said it was "probably" the case, adding that "something happened that was unusual" for a man of Navalny's age.<ref>[https://www.dailywire.com/news/trump-putin-probably-involved-in-navalnys-death Trump: Putin 'Probably' Involved In Navalny's Death]. ''The Daily Wire'', 2024.</ref>

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