"I want to set new standards for politics as a whole"

On December 13, opposition politician and founder of the Anti-Corruption Foundation (ACF) Alexei Navalny announced that he intended to run in Russia's 2018 presidential election and published his platform. Meduza special correspondent editor Alexander Gorbachev spoke with Navalny about whether it ma

"Your senses become dulled, even your sense of danger"

In 2012, Alexei Navalny was called "Politician of the Year," and in 2013 he ran a high-profile campaign in the Moscow mayoral election. In February 2014, house arrest nearly erased Navalny from Russia's public political life. Meduza spoke with Navalny about the Yves Rocher case, his persistence in a