The main photos from the life of the main opposition policy of Russia
Navalny on Lake Baikal. He came to Irkutsk to meet with voters during his presidential campaign. November 4, 2017. Evgeny Feldman
On February 16, 2024, it became known that Alexei Navalny died in a colony. The comrades -in -arms of the policy and most independent commentators believe that he was actually killed. Medusa recalls how Navalny, a young Moscow activist and anti -corruption blogger has turned into the main hope of the Russian opposition and one of the most famous political prisoners in the world.
Oleg Kozyrev / Wikimedia Commons Alexei Navalny took up activism in 2000. He joined the Yabloko party, created the Muscovites Committee with it, ran for the Moscow City Duma. In 2007, it was expelled from the “apple-as a result of the intra-party struggle-“ for the inflorescence of the party’s political damage, in particular, for nationalist activities. ” Navalny founded the movement “People”, led political debate, regularly participated in “Russian marches”. In the photograph of 2006, a picket of movement "Yes! - Democratic alternative "against the demolition of Moscow vocational schools for commercial development Gennady Gulyaev / Kommersant in 2009 Navalny focused on the fight against corruption: he began to publish in the “Live Journal” of the investigation regarding public procurement. He launched the Rospil movement, uniting activists who exposed theft of officials. Having gained popularity, Navalny invited the opposition’s supporters to vote in the parliamentary elections for any batch except “United Russia” - which it was he who invented to call a “party of crooks and thieves”. According to the results of the ER election, I received almost 50% - against the background of reports of mass falsifications. Following the calls of Navalny, thousands of people went to a rally in pure ponds, which became the largest protesting for many years. December 5, 2011 Evgeny Feldman Miting on December 5, 2011 grew into a spontaneous procession towards the CEC building on Lubyanskaya Square. The police detained more than 300 activists, including Navalny. He was first arrested for 15 days. In the photo taken on December 12, 2011, Navalny (right) and another arrested peep out on the street from the window of his cell Kirill Kudryavtsev / AFP / Scanpix / Leta due to the arrest of Navalny missed the first large rally of the “protest winter” in Bolotnaya Square. At the next large demonstration on Sakharov Avenue, about 100 thousand people gathered. Navalny from the stage said that in front of him “there are enough people to take both the Kremlin and the White House right now, but we are peaceful people and we will not do this ... for now”. His speech with the refrain "Yes or not?!" She became a meme and one of the most famous political performances in modern Russia. December 24, 2011 Evgeny Feldman, after the failure of the Snow Revolution and Putin’s victory in the 2012 presidential election, unexpectedly became Astrakhan. Local politician Oleg Shein advanced to the mayors of the city, lost due to falsifications and announced a hunger strike. By the 30th day of his campaign, to which dozens of local activists joined, Moscow politicians arrived in Astrakhan, from Navalny to the leader of Fair Russia Sergey Mironov. Alexei held an inconsistent procession in the center of the city, which gathered seven thousand people; Then Shein agreed to stop the hunger strike. He later lost in court, but the uninteross winner was soon convicted of corruption. April 14, 2012 Evgeny Feldman was the latest protest of that wave of the Millions of Millions on May 6, 2012, a day before Putin's inauguration. The Moscow police arranged a “bottleneck” on the path of a march, at a turn from a small stone bridge to a swamp embankment. Protest leaders, leading the march of tens of thousands of people, announced a sedentary strike. Claces with the police began. In the evening, the security forces opened a criminal case of riots; It became known as a "swamp business" Evgeny Feldman The struggle of protesters and police continued in Moscow and after the dispersal of the “Million Marsh”: activists tried to approach the inaugural motorcade as possible, and the security forces cleared and blocked the streets of the city. Navalny and Left politician Sergei Udaltsov proposed a “flowing protest” format: an unlimited round -the -clock action with a constant movement along any affordable streets and squares. In those days of Navalny, they detained several times - in the photo he sits in a police car at the TASS building. May 8, 2012 Evgeny Feldman at the end of May 2012, the security forces began to detain participants in the rally on May 6 in the “Swamp Case”. On June 11, investigators conducted searches in the apartments of protest leaders (or people who at that time considered them) - from Ksenia Sobchak to Boris Nemtsov. In the photo of Navalny's apartment after the departure of the security forces Evgeny Feldman in the fall of 2012, the opposition tried to institutionalize by arranging elections to the coordination council of opposition. Navalny won them, gaining more than 43 thousand votes. This body could not become effective and respected. In the photo: Navalny, Nemtsov and journalist Oleg Kashin on television debates of candidates on October 12, 2012 Evgeny Feldman Navalny during the “Picket Chain” on October 21, 2012, which stretches from the FSB building on Lubyanka to the SK building in Technical Lane. The action was invented and announced after the Russian oppositionist Leonid Razvoszhaev was detained by security forces in Kyiv. He was taken to Russia and sent to a pre -trial detention center - and at the hearing, Razvozhaev managed to say that he was tortured. Later he received four and a half years of colony Evgeny Feldman Alexey and Julia Navalny at a rally on May 6, 2013 in support of political prisoners in the "Swamp case" Evgeny Feldman, The first of them reached the court in mid -2013: Navalny and businessman Peter Officer was accused of embezzlement of the property of the Kirovles state enterprise. The case described the usual entrepreneurial activity: officers bought wood from Kirovles, searched for buyers and sold more expensive; Navalny was an adviser to the Kirov governor on a voluntary basis and had no formal powers. Officers, the father of four children, refused to testify against Navalny. Both were found guilty and sentenced to four and five years of the colony, respectively. July 18, 2013 after the sentence announced their convoy of the convoy Evgeny Feldman in the summer of 2013 in Moscow was a mayor's campaign, Navalny fought against the re -elected Sergei Sobyanin. Immediately after the verdict in the Kirovles case, on July 18, the opposition headquarters announced that he was stopping the campaign and began to campaign for a boycott. In Moscow, an inconsistent protest rally began. A few hours later, prosecutors unexpectedly demanded that the court free Navalny and Officer before considering their appeal. July 19, 2013 Navalny and officers were released in the hall of the Kirov Regional Court Grigory Dukor / Reuters / Scanpix / Leta at the Yaroslavl station in Moscow Navalny and Officer (left) was met by hundreds of supporters. July 20, 2013 Evgeny Feldman elections of the mayor were scheduled for September 8, all summer Navalny kept the campaign: he collected donations with small payments, sent thousands of volunteers to pickets throughout the city and performed at dozens of rallies. Many of them ended in a long autograph session. August 21, 2013 Evgeny Feldman scored 27.2%in the mayor of Navalny, receiving 632 thousand votes. Sobyanin received 51.37%, with difficulty avoiding the second round. The headquarters of Navalny recorded a large number of violations, but at the rally after the election, the politician did not call supporters to street protests. September 9, 2013 Evgeny Feldman is the second case against Navalny-“Iv Rocher”-reached trial at the end of 2014. By that time, the politician was under house arrest for almost a year (in the same case). According to the prosecution, along with his brother Oleg Navalny created an enterprise that transported cosmetics at high prices. Oleg insisted that it was ordinary entrepreneurial activity, and Alexei - that he did not participate in this business at all. As a result, the Zamoskvoretsky court was probably the most cruel sentence of the possible: Alexei received a suspended sentence, and Oleg was sent to the colony for three and a half years. December 30, 2014 Evgeny Feldman was originally the announcement of the sentence in the Yves Rocher case was scheduled for January 15, 2015, Navalny's supporters announced a large inconsistent protest on Manezhnaya Square. The authorities began to block the calls to reach a rally on the Internet - and then they postponed the meeting on December 30. Navalny arrived at the Moscow Center, despite house arrest, but a spontaneous action on New Year's Eve gathered only hundreds of participants Evgeny Feldman in the summer of 2015, Navalny tried to gather a new opposition coalition with Mikhail Kasyanov and “Open Russia” by Mikhail Khodorkovsky. Its first goal was the parliamentary elections in several regions of Russia - but as a result, the opposition list was allowed into the ballot only in the Kostroma region and only a few weeks before the election. Navalny spent several rallies in the region, but the opposition failed, gaining a little more than 2% of the vote. In the photo taken on September 4, 2015, Alexei Navalny and his ally Leonid Volkov are engaged in staffing in a roadside pancake Evgeny Feldman after the murder of Boris Nemtsov in February 2015 and the failure in Kostroma, the opposition first agreed to hold a rally on the outskirts of Moscow, in Maryino. Navalny spoke about patience from the stage: “Let us less, but our children and our grandchildren will put us as an example!” September 20, 2015 Evgeny Feldman all this time the authorities continued to increase pressure on Navalny's structures. On January 16, 2015, Alexei was twisted at the exit of the house and taken for interrogation - and a search began in the FBK with the seizure of all equipment. The reason for him was the “illegal actions of the heads and employees of the fund when the expenditure of funds transferred by the donors” Evgeny Feldman in November 2016 Navalny announced his nomination to the president in the 2018 election. This was facilitated by the decision of the European Court of Human Rights, which canceled the verdict in the Kirovles case-because of it, Alexei lost passive suffrage. The authorities hastily began a new process on exactly the same charges. Alexey Navalny and Peter Officers in Kirov December 5, 2016 Evgeny Feldman, despite the new conviction in Kirov, in February 2017, Navalny began the first phase of the presidential campaign - a trip around the country. February 4, he opened the first headquarters in St. Petersburg Evgeny Feldman Alexey and Julia Navalny before meeting with the volunteers of the election headquarters in Yekaterinburg. February 25, 2017 Evgeny Feldman Navalny and his associates were constantly pursued by provocateurs. At the Railway Station in Ufa, a group of young people was injected with eggs, and in Volgograd they tried to beat him. Police officers rarely interfered with provocateurs. Ufa, March 5, 2017 Evgeny Feldman on April 27, 2017, Alexei Navalny was doused with greening in Moscow - for the second time during his election campaign - and seriously damaged his eye. Navalny accused the administration of the President of Russia of organizing an attack. One of the attackers was identified as an activist of the radical "patriotic" movement of SERB Evgeny Feldman in early March 2017, Navalny issued a resonant investigation for the corruption of Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev. The video collected tens of millions of views. The headquarters argued about the further strategy of the campaign, and Navalny convinced the supporters to hold the All -Russian protest. More than one hundred thousand people came to her - mostly young people. Navalny was detained on Tverskaya Street during an inconsistent campaign in Moscow, the protesters tried to block the road to Avtozaku, pulling the parked cars onto the roadway. March 26, 2017 Evgeny Feldman police withdraw a family of Navalny from a rally against renovation in Moscow. May 14, 2017 Evgeny Feldman, despite the constant arrests, attacks and administrative pressure, Navalny’s campaign attracted more and more attention - hundreds of people gathered non -public meetings with volunteers. Izhevsk, June 10, 2017 Evgeny Feldman Navalny at the station in Tver between performances on a campaign trip. May 29, 2017 Evgeny Feldman Navalny did not like public performances and could not eat before them, and then felt a strong hunger. After a program speech at the conference of the coordinators of the regional headquarters, Navalny was ate Doshirak, which was given to him by one of the supporters. August 29, 2017 Evgeny Feldman in the fall of 2017, the headquarters of Navalny began to conduct public rallies, collecting thousands of people-often these demonstrations became the largest protest actions in the history of cities. Khabarovsk, September 24, 2017 Evgeny Feldman in each city of Navalny tried to go to some place proposed by volunteers before the rally. In Arkhangelsk, he visited the area of residential wooden barracks. November 1, 2017 Evgeny Feldman in the middle of the fall began to refuse Navalny’s headquarters to conduct his rallies, despite the fact that activists submitted a hundred applications throughout the country every week. In Samara, the action was torn under the pretext of holding the "Championship in the abdomen." The music was supposed to drown out what was happening in the square, but Navalny pulled out force cords from the speakers - and performed, climbing one of them. December 3, 2017 Evgeny Feldman Navalny’s headquarters hoped to make his candidate so popular that the Central Election Commission had to register him in the elections (despite the verdict in the Kirovles case). The officials called Navalny the very day after the submission of documents - he went to the meeting, realizing that the refusal was inevitable. December 25, 2017 Vacilius Maximov / AFP / Scanpix / Leta in the summer of 2018, Oleg Navalny left the colony. Alex came to meet him. June 29, 2018 Maxim Shemetov / Reuters / Scanpix / Leta Police detained Alexei Navalny at a rally in support of the Medusa journalist Ivan Golunov. June 12, 2019 Sefa Karacan / Anadolu Agency / Getty Images in 2019 Navalny and his supporters tried to win the elections to the Moscow City Duma. However, independent candidates were refused registration, and protests were harshly dispersed - however, this only attracted attention to the campaign. Navalny proposed a “smart vote” - a strategy according to which opposition activists should support any strongest candidate from United Russia. As a result, the EP hardly received the majority in the capital's parliament, and the acceleration of protest shares ended in Moscow business and the criminal prosecution of dozens of protesters Dimitar Dilkoff / AFP / Scanpix / Leta, the authorities increasingly sent Navalny and his associates to administrative arrests; Searches sometimes took place simultaneously in hundreds of FBK premises in dozens of cities. On December 26, 2019, the security forces again came to the Moscow Office of the FBK-due to the criminal case of the refusal to delete the investigation of Medvedev, despite the corresponding court decision Yuri Martyanov / Kommersant / Sipa USA / Vida Press Navalny tried not to miss the marches of Boris Nemtsov’s memory. In 2020, the action took place on February 29, right before the start of the pandemic, and became the last coordinated protest rally in Moscow for years to come-and the last rally in which Navalny participated Alexey Malgavko / Scanpix / Leta in the summer of 2020 Alexei Navalny went on a campaign tour of Siberia: the politician prepared a “smart vote” for the autumn regional elections. In a plane from Tomsk to Moscow, he felt ill; After an emergency landing in Omsk, he fell into intensive care. August 22, 2020 The press service of Alexei Navalny / AP / Scanpix / Leta two days later the Russian authorities and doctors agreed with the demand of the Navalny family and allowed him to take it out for treatment to Germany. European chemists found traces of the novice poison in his analyzes - later the investigation proved that the politician was poisoned by the FSB officers @navalny / Instagram / AFP / Scanpix / Leta after two weeks Navalny left the coma. On September 15, 2020, his family published the first frame from the hospital Kirill Kudryavtsev / AFP / Scanpix / Leta at the end of December 2020, Navalny published a video of his conversation with a member of the poisoning team. By that time, the politician had been rehabilitation in Germany for three months; The Russian authorities said that his treatment is an attempt to escape from the conditional term in the Yves Rocher case. Despite the threat of arrest, in January 2021 Navalny announced that he would soon fly to Russia. He later said that he had no doubt whether to return or not, he did not imagine his life in exile. Alexey Navalny on the aircraft of the Victory airline January 17, 2021 Evgeny Feldman for Medusa Navalny was detained immediately at the border at the airport, and after a court meeting held in the Khimkinsky police department, he was sent to a pre -trial detention center. The day after the arrest of Navalny, the FBK team published an investigation about Putin's palace The press service of the Moscow City Court / AFP / Scanpix / Leta on February 2, 2021, the Simonovsky court of Moscow replaced Alexei Navalny as a conditional term in the Yves Rocher case with a real one. The politician had to spend two years and eight months in the colony. In this photo, Navalny addresses his wife Evgeny Feldman / "Medusa" since then Navalny appeared publicly only on video communication during court hearings. So, on December 28, 2021, the court in Kovrov considered his complaint about registration in the colony as prone to extremism. All such hearings ended in decisions in favor of the FSIN Юрий Кочетков / EPA / Scanpix / LETA В феврале 2022-го начался новый процесс против Навального, его провели прямо в колонии. Политика обвинили в «неуважении к суду» и «мошенничестве» — и приговорили к девяти годам лишения свободы. Алексей и Юлия Навальные на видеотрансляции заседания 15 февраля Евгений Фельдман / «Медуза» Сотрудники колоний, где содержался Навальный, непрерывно придумывали поводы, чтобы отправить его в штрафной изолятор — одиночную камеру с особо строгими условиями содержания (непрерывное содержание в ШИЗО — это фактически пытка). Олег Навальный построил копию ШИЗО и выставлял ее в разных европейских городах, пытаясь привлечь внимание к этой ситуации. Берлин, 15 февраля 2023 года Reuters / Scanpix / LETA Здоровье Навального, который попал в тюрьму, едва оправившись от тяжелейшего отравления, вызывало большое беспокойство врачей — они неоднократно обращались к руководству страны с требованиями прекратить издевательства над политиком. Навальному отказывали в адекватной медицинской помощи, а в декабре 2023 года политика этапировали в колонию «Полярный волк» — в зону вечной мерзлоты. Сразу после карантина Навального снова отправили в ШИЗО — всего он провел в изоляторе 295 дней Максим Шеметов / Reuters / Scanpix / LETA В начале января 2024 года Верховный суд РФ отклонил два иска Навального, в которых тот требовал отменить ограничения на количество книг и времени на прием пищи. 11 января Навальный выступил в суде по видеосвязи. Это одна из его последних фотографий
