Alexei Navalny: This is what a post-Putin Russia should look like
Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny is serving a nine-year sentence in a maximum-security penal colony. This essay was conveyed to The Post by his legal team.
The 100 Most Influential People of 2022: Vladimir Putin
Perhaps Vladimir Putin’s true mission is to teach lessons. To everyone — from world leaders and pundits to ordinary people. He has been especially good at this in 2022.
The Man Putin Fears
On a cold morning in November, the family of Alexei Navalny, the Russian opposition leader, made the trip out to visit him at Penal Colony No. 2. The drive from Moscow took about two hours, though parts of it felt like traveling back in time. Coming off the highway from Russia’s high-tech capital, t
Putin's Palace. The Story of the Biggest Bribe
"Putin's Palace. The Story of the Biggest Bribe" is an investigation by Alexei Navalny into a residence on the Black Sea near Gelendzhik. Step by step, the investigation shows how the residence is structured: the land, security, infrastructure, contractors, legal entities, and money flows leading to
I called my would-be killer. He confessed.
In this video, Alexei Navalny personally calls one of the members of the FSB-controlled hit squad — chemist Konstantin Kudryavtsev — and, posing as an aide to Nikolai Patrushev, gets him to confess to what he did. The FSB officer’s account of how Novichok was used not only definitively proved the Kr
“The Case Is Solved. I Know Who Tried to Kill Me.” — Investigation into Navalny’s Poisoners
The Case Is Solved. I Know Who Tried to Kill Me. is one of Alexei Navalny’s most important investigations. In it, Navalny identifies the FSB officers who were involved in the attempt on his life using the Novichok nerve agent. What Russian authorities sought to portray as a vague and unexplained “i
Hi, this is Navalny.
Alexei Navalny’s first video after the poisoning. He says that, despite pressure and aggressive statements from the Russian authorities, he intends to return to Russia and continue his work. He also states plainly that Russian President Vladimir Putin was behind the attempt on his life. In addition,
"My elimination would change nothing." An interview with Alexei Navalny about his recovery and return to Russia
Opposition politician Alexei Navalny remains in rehabilitation in Germany after being poisoned. He is working with physiotherapists and uses a computer and social media for a couple of hours a day—longer is not yet recommended. He is preparing to return to Russia as soon as his health allows.
Alexei Navalny on the poisoning attempt: “It wasn’t pain — it was something worse.”
In October 2020, Alexei Navalny spoke with Der Spiegel about the assassination attempt using a nerve agent, Putin’s role in the attempted killing, and Merkel’s visit to the hospital. In the interview, he says he wants to return to Russia as soon as possible — and not become an opposition leader in e
A major broadcast on Belarus. Tikhanovskaya. Strikes. Special forces officers.
The final episode of Alexei Navalny’s weekly program Russia of the Future before he was poisoned with Novichok. On air, Alexei talks about the events in Belarus, which he calls historic and important for Russia, and also criticizes the Russian authorities amid the protests in Khabarovsk and the conf
KHABAROVSK. The Secret Mansions of the Man Who Put Furgal Behind Bars
The text presents the situation in Khabarovsk Krai as a long-running conflict between the region’s residents and the Kremlin, beginning after Sergei Furgal’s victory in the September 2018 election and intensifying following United Russia’s defeats in subsequent elections. The author claims that Furg
Putin: the German Wehrmacht or our veterans?
In this video, recorded in June 2020 ahead of the vote on “resetting” Putin’s presidential terms, Alexei exposes the Kremlin’s cynicism in using the theme of the Great Patriotic War (the Soviet front of World War II) as a PR smokescreen. Using hard numbers, he shows that Russian veterans receive pen
5 Steps for Russia
At the height of the COVID-19 pandemic in April 2020, Alexei Navalny recorded this video address to launch the large-scale public campaign “5 Steps for Russia.” He proposed a concrete plan to support citizens and businesses using money from the National Wealth Fund, including direct cash payments an
Utkin vs. Solovyov, police scumbags, nightmare in the metro
Twitter day. 10 April 2020
The Crimean Bridge. Stolen with Love!
In this 2020 investigation, Alexei Navalny exposes the dark side of the making of the patriotic blockbuster The Crimean Bridge, directed by Tigran Keosayan from a screenplay by his wife, Margarita Simonyan. It turned out that 100 million rubles in state budget funds had been allocated to this “gift
Twitter day. 10 March 2020
Parasites
The Secret Life of a Foreign Agent
In this video investigation, released in November 2019, Alexei Navalny exposes the astonishing hypocrisy of Denis Popov, who was Moscow’s prosecutor at the time. It was Popov who actively pushed for the arrest of participants in the Moscow protests and demanded that the ACF be designated a “foreign
URGENT: Putin Is Stamping His Feet. Raids Across the Country
In this video, recorded on a phone in September 2019, Alexei Navalny speaks about an unprecedented wave of raids on campaign offices across the country — the Kremlin’s response to the success of “Smart Voting” in the Moscow City Duma elections. With his characteristic irony, Alexei explains why Vlad
Alexei Navalny’s speech at the “Let Them Run!” rally in Moscow
Twitter day. 20 June 2019
“Separate opinion” from May 22, 2019.
In a conversation, Alexei Navalny discusses protests in Yekaterinburg and argues that it was persistent street action by ordinary people—and Vladimir Putin’s subsequent response—that proved decisive. As a result, the authorities were effectively forced to change course and “back down.” Navalny expla
An Official’s Apartment Worth 5 Billion Rubles (about US$54 million)