From Vox: “In 2006, a lawyer named Alexei Navalny started a blog where he wrote about corruption in his home country of Russia. It’s the most prominent problem under the regime of Vladimir Putin, who has ruled Russia since 2000. Putin has systematically taken over the country’s independent media, oligarchy, elections, and laws to cement his own power and wield corruption to his advantage.
That’s what Navalny set out to expose. And in 2010, he published a groundbreaking investigation into a state-owned transportation company, Transneft, which was funneling state money into the hands of its executives. The post launched Navalny into politics.
By 2016, he had become the face of Russia’s opposition movement, run for mayor, and was running for president against Putin himself. Navalny was unifying Russia’s opposition like no politician had before. That’s why the Kremlin tried to kill him. Navalny survived the assassination attempt, launching a movement never before seen in Russia.”
To dive deeper into why the Russian government wants Navalny dead, watch the Vox video above, then listen to this informative report from the New York Times’ Daily Podcast below.
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Putin don’t want him dead infact putin is protecting him so the WEST don’t murder him to blame on Putin… He came from Germany back to Russia for his safety…. Laugh if you want but he is no threat to Putin….
Sorry where’s the open culture here? I don’t donate to see cold war baiting propaganda. Not to mention Navalny’s racist/Islamophobic past..