Who was the man who died yesterday that he was afraid of the President of Russia?

Alexei Navalny

Who was the man who died yesterday that he was afraid of the President of Russia?

Russian prison guards have announced the death of Russia's most important opposition leader of the past decade, 47-year-old Alexei Navalny.

Navalny, considered by many to be President Vladimir Putin's staunchest critic, has been serving a 19-year sentence in a remote Arctic prison after being found guilty of "extremism", which many considered it to be "political".

The prison administration of Yama region in the Arctic said that "prisoner Navalny felt sick and immediately lost consciousness. Ambulance teams confirmed the death of the prisoner and the cause of death is being confirmed." said a statement from the Russian prison guards.

The statement added that the medical team tried to save the prisoner but could not.

Alexei Navalny was born on June 4, 1976 in the Byten district of Moscow, studied law and graduated from Moscow State University in 1998.

He also taught and visited the university in the United States called Yale in 2010.

Navalny has been known for fighting corruption, and the most famous opponent of President Putin.

He had millions of followers on social media and managed to get some of his followers to run for local councils in Siberia in the 2020 elections.

Navalny described Putin's United Russia party as a "gang of thieves" and accused Putin of "sucking Russian blood" through a "terrorist government" that limits the power of the Kremlin.

He also led protests against the authorities across the country, but he was unable to achieve his biggest dream of competing with Putin at the ballot box.

He was banned from running in the 2018 presidential election due to a conviction by a Russian court for embezzling money.

Navalny has vehemently denied the allegations against him, saying his legal troubles were revenge against the Kremlin for harsh criticism of him.

 

The assassination attempt he survived when he was poisoned.

Navalny's fight against the 71-year-old Russian president was personal.

Putin is accused of ordering secret government agents to carry out a poison attack to kill the man in 2020.

Navalny's health condition worsened when the plane he was traveling with to Siberia was poisoned.

He was taken to the hospital in Omsk, after being suspected of being poisoned, and he went into a coma.

A German-based charity convinced Russian officials to allow him to be flown to Berlin for treatment.

Finally, the German government announced on September 2, 2020 that tests carried out by the military found "evidence of the existence of chemical substances in nerve cells.

The man was poisoned with the chemical used to kill former Russian spy Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia in Salisbury, England, in March 2018.

The Kremlin at the time denied any government role in the attack on Navalny, who Putin has always avoided naming in public - and denied the allegations.

The biggest challenge was to challenge Putin at the ballot box.

He was banned from running in the 2018 presidential election due to a conviction by a Russian court for embezzling money.

Navalny has vehemently denied the allegations against him, saying his legal troubles were retaliation for the Kremlin's harsh criticism of him.

Surviving Novichok poisoning

Navalny's fight against the 71-year-old Russian president was personal.

Putin is accused of ordering secret government agents to carry out a poison attack to kill the man in 2020.

Navalny's health condition worsened when the plane he was traveling with to Siberia was poisoned.

He was taken to the hospital in Omsk, after being suspected of being poisoned, and he went into a coma.

A German-based charity convinced Russian officials to allow him to be flown to Berlin for treatment.

Finally, the German government announced on September 2, 2020 that tests carried out by the military found "evidence of the existence of chemical substances in nerve cells.

The man was poisoned with the chemical used to kill former Russian spy Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia in Salisbury, England, in March 2018.

The Kremlin at the time denied any government role in the attack on Navalny, who Putin has always avoided naming in public - and denied the allegations.

But Putin has admitted that his country is heavily guarded, and says that this is because US spies are accused of helping him.

An investigative report released by the Bellingcat investigative group revealed that the Russian Federal Security Service (FSB) is on the lookout for Navalny.

Bellingcat named agents suspected of poisoning Navalny.

Navalny then conducted an investigation undercover, posing as a senior Russian security official and talking to a representative of the country's security services on the phone who confessed to the assassination plot.

The European Union has imposed sanctions on six senior Russian officials and a Russian chemical weapons research facility, accusing them of direct involvement in the poisoning of Navalny.

Russia responded with more sanctions.

There have been previous attacks on Navalny, in 2019, and his doctor said he was poisoned while in prison.

Two more times they were targeted with chemical substances that have not yet been identified.

 

A famous and influential writer in Russia

Although Navalny has been a thorn in the side of the Kremlin for a long time, he also has several criticisms as revealed by opposition groups.

He has been accused of favoring the so-called radical nationalist side of Russia.

In 2014, he was asked about President Putin's annexation of the Crimean Peninsula to Ukraine, in an interview with "Ikhomoskovy" Radio. now belongs to Russia,"

Navalny entered Russian politics in 2008 when he began writing about allegations of mismanagement and corruption in some of the largest Russian-controlled companies.

In order to get information, he used to pretend to be someone who wants to buy shares in major oil companies and banks in the country, and he used to ask questions to the critics and corruption in the government.

He reached out to many young people on social media, using offensive and provocative words, mocking President Putin.

Before the 2011 parliamentary elections, in which he did not run for office, he urged readers of his website to vote for any party except the Russian Federation, which he called "the party of thieves".

The United Russia Party won the election, but with a much smaller majority at the time.

The party's victory was marred by widespread allegations of voter fraud, sparking protests in Moscow and other major cities.

When he organized the biggest campaign against Putin

Navalny was arrested after the first demonstration on December 5, 2011, and held for 15 days, but appeared to address the largest post-election rally in Moscow on December 24, from which About 120,000 people participated.

Russia's powerful Investigative Committee has launched criminal investigations into Navalny's past activities, even questioning his credentials as a lawyer.

When he was briefly arrested in July 2013 for embezzlement in the city of Kirov, he was sentenced to five years in prison which was considered to be politically motivated.

He was suddenly allowed out of prison to run in the Moscow mayoral election, where he came in second with 27 percent of the vote.

This was considered a great success because he did not have access to government television and relied only on the Internet and word of mouth to reach people and campaign.

Finally, the Supreme Court of Russia overturned the verdict after the European Court of Human Rights announced that he was not given a fair hearing in the first case.