Alexei Navalny

He was the leader of the Russian opposition and mass protest movement, and the main opponent of Russian President Vladimir Putin. He founded the Anti-Corruption Foundation and initially gained notoriety for his investigations into corruption in Russia. Since the early 2010s, he has been a defendant in and accused of a number of criminal, administrative, civil, and arbitration cases in Russia.
In 2009, Navalny was named "Person of the Year" by Vedomosti. In 2012 and 2021, Time magazine included him in its list of the 100 most influential people in the world, and in June 2017, he was named one of the 25 most influential people on the internet. In 2017 and 2019, he was named Vedomosti's Politician of the Year.
In January 2022, Navalny was added to the Rosfinmonitoring list of extremists and terrorists.
According to the Russian Investigative Committee, the cause of death was a "combined disease." Another theory is poisoning. In February 2026, the governments of the United Kingdom, Sweden, France, Germany, and the Netherlands announced that epibatidine, a neurotoxin extracted from the skin of the South American poison dart frog, was found in Navalny's biomaterials, which his family had managed to export and test in independent laboratories.