Biography of Alexei Navalny

2024 Author: James Gerald | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 14:00

Alexey Navalny is the main oppositionist to the current political power in the Russian Federation. It is not surprising that Russians are interested in his biography, personal life, family and even nationality. According to Time, he was included in the top 100 most influential people in the world, and the Russian Vedomosti was recognized as the person of the year and the politician of the year.

Family and nationality politician

Alexey Navalny was born on June 4, 1976 in the village of Butyn, not far from the capital of the Russian Federation. Father is a Ukrainian military man, originally from the Chernobyl region, near Kiev. Mother near Zelenograd worked at a local research institute as a laboratory assistant, and after distance learning at a university - as an economist. Alexey also has a younger brother, Oleg Navalny, who was born in 1983.

In the 90s, when the local basket weaving factory closed, the Navalny family opened a similar enterprise, which until recently parents and children owned in equal shares. As of 2020, Alexey is no longer a co-owner of this business. As for the nationality of the main Russian oppositionist, opinions differ here:

1. According to official documents, the public figure has Russian citizenship. At least this information is indicated in his passport.
2. Navalny himself considers himself a Ukrainian. Ukraine is the homeland of his father, and it was there that most of the relatives remained. After the accident at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant, they moved to Zalesye and Pereyaslav-Khmelnitsky.
3. Some bloggers are discussing the possibility of Navalny belonging to Jews. Their main argument is the root of the surname "bulk", which is translated from Hebrew as "villain". But the politician himself completely denies these speculations.

Personal life, unlike political, Alexei Navalny is quite stable. After graduating from high school, in Turkey, he began a resort romance with a girl Yulia, which ended with a wedding. In 2001, his wife gave birth to a daughter, Daria, and 7 years later, a son, Zakhar. The family lives in Maryino near Moscow.

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Public figure education

Alexey Navalny studied and successfully graduated from the Alabinsk school in his native village. After that, he tried to enter Moscow State University, but he lacked 1 point. Therefore, the young man chose RUDN.

In 1998 he became a lawyer and soon continued his education at the Financial Academy under the Government of the Russian Federation with a degree in Broker. Subsequently, thanks to his acquaintance with a number of influential personalities, Alexey was also able to enter the six-month courses at Yale University under the international exchange program.

Tellingly, it is almost impossible to find school and student photos of the politician. The same applies to classmates or fellow students of Navalny. The journalists were able to communicate only with the former student of RUDN University Obukhov, and he said that Alexei was always a gloomy and unsociable guy who rarely communicated with others.

Entrepreneur career

In his student years, Alexey Anatolyevich repeatedly opened companies with an official zero income, which he subsequently sold. This brought in several million rubles a student-entrepreneur.

But business successes ended after receiving a second education and the founding of NN Securities. Through this firm, the entrepreneur tried to trade in securities, but went bankrupt, having lost all previous savings. Therefore, in the future, the businessman had to start his career almost anew.

From 2001 to 2013, his biography contains the following points:

• helped found a number of firms;
• was a presenter on the radio "Echo of Moscow";
• conducted legal practice in the capital of the Russian Federation;
• served on the board of directors of Aeroflot.

After a suspended sentence in the Kirovles case, the entrepreneur was deprived of the right to practice law.

At the moment, the public figure lives at the expense of donations, which are transferred to the "Navalny Fund" as support for his political and anti-corruption activities.

Political career

As Alexei Navalny has repeatedly stated, entrepreneurial activity has never been an end in itself for him personally. This is only a means for earning money for a living and for the opportunity to do what you love, politics:

• 2000-2007 - was a member of the Yabloko party, was expelled for nationalist activities;
• 2007-2011 - co-founder of the National Democratic Movement "People";
• 2011-2013 - supported the protest movement against the results of the elections to the State Duma.

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In 2013, Alexei Navalny tried to become mayor of Moscow, but did not succeed. Then he already registered the online projects "RosPil", "RosVybory" and organized an anti-corruption fund, fully devoting himself to blogging and the production of investigative films exposing the income of prominent figures of the Russian Federation.

In 2017, Navalny announced that he was going to take the post of the head of the Russian state. But he was denied the right to stand as a candidate due to an outstanding criminal record.

Arrests and trials

Alexey Anatolyevich was repeatedly arrested for participating in protest actions and served an administrative sentence in a special detention center. His biography also includes 3 criminal cases:

1. "Glavpodiska". The Navalny brothers created this company in 2007. In 2012, they were charged with fraud in the amount of 55 million in national currency and sentenced accordingly.
2. Kirovles. In 2011, Alexey was arrested due to a conspiracy with the management of the company to organize the embezzlement of 16 million rubles through a shell company. Initially, in 2013, he was sentenced to 5 years in prison. But the public and even Vladimir Putin considered the verdict far-fetched. Therefore, the term was subsequently changed to a conditional one. In 2016, the decision was reversed.
3. Yves Rocher. In 2014, the Navalny brothers were again convicted of fraud. And again, Alexei received 3.5 years of probation. In 2017, the sentence was extended for another year. But in 2018 this decision was also canceled. The convict was paid compensation of 4 million rubles.
4. In 2019, the Ministry of Justice recognized Alexey as an American spy. The reason is in his position as head of the Anti-Corruption Foundation. According to the official report, the reason for this decision was a series of tranches from Star-Doors LLC. This company transferred funds from Spain and the United States to the Fund, although it was officially engaged only in the supply of furniture.

Latest news

At the beginning of the year, Alexei Navalny published a film about Mikhail Mishustin's income. In the future, he continued his social activities, one of the first recommending to Sergei Sobyanin to close schools and kindergartens in Moscow for quarantine due to the coronavirus. He also continues investigations, actively comments on political events in Russia, Belarus and the world.

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And on August 20, 2020, Alexei Navalny ended up in a hospital in Omsk. After an emergency landing at a local airport, doctors put the politician into a state of artificial coma. It is not yet known what actually happened. One of the more popular versions is poison in a cup of tea, drunk by Navalny before the flight.

This is not the first case of an attempt on his life. A similar poisoning took place in 2019. Experts associate this with the political biography of Alexei Navalny and the next elections.

Summarize

1. Alexey has been engaged in political and business activities from an early age.
2. He considers himself Ukrainian by nationality.
3. The entrepreneur was repeatedly convicted of large-scale fraud.
4. The main source of income for Navalny is donations.