Alexei Navalny
2nd Corinthians 4: 16-18 Therefore we do not lose heart. Though outwardly we are wasting away, yet inwardly we are being renewed day by day. For our light and momentary troubles are achieving for us an eternal glory that far outweighs them all. So we fix our eyes not on what is seen, but on what is unseen, since what is seen is temporary, but what is unseen is eternal.
Alexei Anatolyevich Navalny was a Russian opposition leader, anti-corruption activist and political prisoner. He founded the Anti-Corruption Foundation.
Before entering politics, Navalny was a lawyer. He gained much of his financial stability through his work in finance and investments. He was involved in various business ventures, including managing a hedge fund, which contributed to his early financial standing. He was married to Yulia Borisovna born July 24th 1976. Yulia announced that she would continue her husbands work, and as of July 1st 2024, she became the chairperson of the Human Rights Foundation. She also now leads the Anti- corruption Foundation, which her husband founded in 2011.
Around February 2nd 2024, Lawyer Alexander Fedulov, who defended Navalny, was put on a wanted list, as follows from the database of the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs. Fedulov’s card states that he is wanted under an article of the Criminal Code. It states that he is wanted for specific articles, that are not specified on the department’s website.
In October 2023, Fedulov announced his departure from Russia after he learned of the initiation of cases against three other lawyers- Igor Sergunin, Alexei Liptser and Vadim Kobzev, defenders of Navalny. They were accused of transmitting messages from Navalny and helping to carry out the “function of the leader and director of an extremist community.” All three lawyers were arrested on October 13.
Navalny’s lawyers — Igor Sergunin, Alexey Liptser, and Vadim Kobzev — were arrested on Friday, October 13th, 2023 for suspicion of being involved with an “extremist organization.”
As of January 17th 2025 A Russian court sentenced the three to several years in prison.
“The huge amount of work, the number of courts and the current situation have led to the need for adjustments for further protection in the interests of our client. This is what caused the need to travel outside the Russian Federation,” Fedulov said on his Instagram.
Earlier, the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs also placed Navalny’s lawyer, Olga Mikhailova on the wanted list. In mid-January, she was charged with participation in an extremist community (Part 2 of Article 282.1 of the Criminal Code), which is an article that provides for a maximum penalty for a term of up to six years in prison. Mikhailova also left Russia after her colleagues were arrested. She called the criminal case against herself “crazy nonsense and fictitious extremism.”
Sometimes standing against evil is more important than defeating it. The greatest heroes stand because it is right to do so, not because they believe they will walk away with their lives. N.D. Wilson
Navalny was in custody after his suspended sentence was replaced with a real one in 2021 in the case of theft of property from the State Unitary Enterprise Kirovles and Yves Rocher Vostok LLC. In March 2022, he was accused of fraud and contempt of court and given another nine years in a maximum security colony. In 2023, he was sentenced to 19 years for creating an extremist community and banned from publishing messages on social networks. In December, Navalny announced that a vandalism case had been opened against him, for which he faces up to three more years in prison. He continued to protest his innocence, demanding the criminal case was political.
“Make a career of humanity. Commit yourself to the noble struggle for equal rights. You will make a better person of yourself, a greater nation of your country, and a finer world to live in.”
Martin Luther King Jr.
In an AP News article
written by Emma Burrows Updated 10:39 AM EST, December 18, 2023
The United Nations’ special rapporteur for human rights in Russia said Monday that she is concerned about imprisoned Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny after his legal team and allies reported they have been unable to locate him since making contact 13 days ago.
Navalny’s allies said he failed to appear in court as expected Monday and they were still searching for him in Russia’s extensive prison system.
Navalny’s spokesperson Kira Yarmysh wrote on X, formerly known as Twitter, that Navalny had multiple hearings scheduled, some of which were suspended since the unknown location of the politician who is President Vladimir Putin’s fiercest foe precluded his participation in person or by video link.
Special Rapporteur Mariana Katzarova, an independent expert who reports on human rights in Russia for the U.N., said she was “greatly concerned that the Russian authorities did not disclose Mr. Navalny’s whereabouts and well-being for such a prolonged period of time.”
Did you know: That according to Wikipedia in August 2020,
Navalny was hospitalized in serious condition after being poisoned with a Novichok nerve agent. He was medically evacuated to Berlin and discharged a month later. Navalny accused Putin of being responsible for his poisoning, and an investigation implicated agents from the Federal Security Service (a federal executive body with the authority to implement government policy in the national security of the Russian).
In January 2021, Navalny returned to Russia and was immediately detained on accusations of violating parole conditions while he was hospitalized in Germany which were imposed as a result of his 2014 conviction. Following his arrest and the release of the documentary Putin’s Palace, which accused Putin of corruption, mass protest were held across Russia. In February 2021, his suspended sentence was replaced with a prison sentence of over two and a half years’ detention, and his organizations were later designated as extremist and liquidated, including the FBK.
The film, Putin’s Palace,” estimates that the residence, located near the town of Gelendzhik in Krasnodar Krai, cost approximately $1.35 billion with what it says was “the largest bribe in history”. Putin has claimed that neither he nor his family ever owned the palace and downplayed the investigation.
Revelation 2: 10 Do not fear what you are about to suffer. Behold, the devil is about to throw some of you into prison, that you may be tested, and for ten days you will have tribulation. Be faithful unto death, and I will give you the crown of life.
In March 2022, Navalny was sentenced to an additional nine years in prison after being found guilty of embezzlement and contempt of court in a new trial described as a sham by Amnesty International; his appeal was rejected and in June, he was transferred to a high-security prison. In August 2023, Navalny was sentenced to an additional 19 years in prison on extremism charges meaning he would be released in December 2038. Navalny commented that his sentence is as long as either his life or the life of the political regime in the country. In December 2023, Navalny went missing from prison for almost three weeks, and then re-emerged in a new prison in the Yamalo – Nenets Autonomous okrug.
Navalny, 47, died at an Arctic penal colony on Feb. 16. The Kremlin, which casts Navalny and his supporters as U.S.-backed extremists, has denied state involvement in his death. Navalny’s death certificate, according to supporters, said he died of natural causes.
Psalms 23:4 Even though I walk through the darkest valley, I will fear no evil, for you (LORD) are with me; your rod and your staff, they comfort me.
In December 2023 he was transferred from a penal colony east of Moscow to the Polar Wolf colony in Kharp, Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug, in Russia’s Far North. The Polar Wolf colony has more harsh conditions, including reported torture of inmates, and according to Novaya Gazeta is reserved for “especially dangerous repeat offenders”. On February 15th, the day before his death, he appeared via video link at a court hearing, during which he made jokes and seemed to be in good health. At the time of his death, Navalny was serving a 19-year sentence, and was in solitary confinement for the 27th time, having spent a cumulative 300 days in solitary confinement over the course of his sentence.
According to CNN Alexei Navalny was laid to rest in Moscow Friday March 1st, exactly two weeks after his death. Thousands of mourners gathered to pay their respects to the former opposition figure — expressing defiance and calling Navalny a “true hero” More than 100 people across Russia were detained, according to a human rights monitoring group.
Alexei Navalny announced his intention to run for President of Russia in the 2018 election on 13 December 2016. The primary themes of his campaign focused on domestic issues, including combating corruption in Russia and improving the economy. It would appear that this was his actual crime. The reason he was terrorized, poisoned, imprisoned, tortured and executed. Navalny bravely fought against blatant corruption. Taking on Putin and His malfeasance. This man was indeed a hero, and should definitely be remembered!!! If you want to learn more, check out this movie.
Romans 16: 20 The God of peace will soon crush Satan under your feet. The grace of our Lord Yehoshua be with you.
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