Alexey Anatolyevich Navalny- public figure, politician, positions himself as an investment activist investigating corruption in Russia, founder of the Anti-Corruption Foundation, author of a popular blog in LiveJournal. In 2013, Alexei Navalny lost to Sergei Sobyanin in the Moscow mayoral elections. In December 2016, he announced that he was going to participate in the presidential elections in Russia in 2018, building an election campaign on the same corruption investigations like the film about Dmitry Medvedev "He is not Dimon to you."
The early years and education of Alexei Navalny
Alexei Navalny was born on June 4, 1976 in the military town of Butyn, Odintsovo district, Moscow region.
As Alexei Anatolyevich himself likes to tell, his family comes from Ukraine. Most of the relatives live in the Kyiv region and Pereyaslav-Khmelnitsky. He himself feels partly Ukrainian.
Navalny's father Anatoly Ivanovich Navalny, was born and graduated from school in Zalesye (formerly the Chernobyl region, now the Ivankovsky region, Kyiv region). Navalny Sr. graduated from the Kiev Military School of Communications. After graduating from college, he began to serve in the Moscow region.
Navalny's mother Lyudmila Ivanovna Navalnaya, originally from Zelenograd, Moscow Region, studied at the Moscow Institute of Management named after Sergo Ordzhonikidze, worked as a laboratory assistant at the Zelenograd Research Institute of Microdevices. Currently, Alexei Navalny's parents are co-owners of the Kobyakovskaya wicker weaving factory.
Grandfather - Ivan Tarasovich Navalny was a carpenter. Alexei's grandmother Tatyana Danilovna. All their lives the old people worked at the local collective farm in Zalesye. Little Alyosha spent every summer until 1986 (before the Chernobyl accident) in their village.
As the son of a military man, Alex changed several schools. In this regard, he confidently asserted that "military children do not have childhood friends, because military children move all the time."
Navalny's idol in childhood and to this day - Arnold Schwarzenegger. Perhaps Alexei learned to fight from his hero, because he said that only high school students could defeat him at school.
After graduating from the Alabinsky secondary school in 1993, Alexei Navalny entered the law faculty of the Peoples' Friendship University of Russia, graduating in 1998. In 1999 he entered the Financial Academy under the Government of the Russian Federation (specialty "Securities and Stock Exchange Business") and graduated in 2001.
Work and business of Alexei Navalny
While still at the university, Alexei Navalny began his business career. In 1997, an enterprising young man founded Nesna LLC (hairdressing services). True, Alexei soon sold the company. But in the same year, Navalny registered Allekt LLC. Navalny worked as deputy director for legal issues in this firm, and at the same time got a job in the ST-group development company. Worked on real estate, currency control and antitrust law (1998-1999). For some time he worked at Aeroflot Bank. Rotating in business structures, Alexei Navalny faced both violations of the law and corruption.
Alexei Navalny has a stake in the family business OOO Kobyakovskaya wicker weaving factory (in the Odintsovo district of the Moscow region). He has 25% of the authorized capital, the rest of the shares are owned by his relatives.
Entrepreneurship was in full swing from the young Navalny. Together with friends from the Faculty of Law of the Peoples' Friendship University of Russia, in 2000 Aleksey opened the firm "N. N. Securities. Alexey Navalny had a 35% stake in this company and worked as its chief accountant. "N. N. Securities was engaged in trading securities on the stock exchange. The young entrepreneur himself said that he became interested in playing on the stock exchange. The irrepressible excitement led to the fact that Alexei Navalny lost (as he said) "the few money" that he had, and the company went bankrupt.
Cheerful Aleksey Anatolyevich in 2001 co-founded Eurasian Transport Systems LLC, which made money on cargo transportation.
Politics and social activities of Alexei Navalny
Back in 2000, Alexei became a member of the Yabloko party and even its Federal Political Council. And from 2004 to 2007 he became the head of the regional branch of the RODP "Yabloko". But in December 2007 he was expelled from the party with the wording "for causing political damage to the party, in particular, for nationalist activities."
Alexei Navalny in the party "Yabloko" (Photo: navalny.com)
Since 2006, Alexei Navalny has been the founder of various projects and public organizations, such as Political Debates, the Union of Minority Shareholders, the Committee for the Protection of Muscovites, and the Police with the People. Together with Maria Gaidar and Natalia Morari organized the Youth movement "YES!". Raised awareness, being the host of the Urban Chronicles program on the Ekho Moskvy radio station, was also the editor-in-chief of the Fight Club program at TVC.
In 2009, Alexey Navalny, as a freelance adviser to the governor of the Kirov region, worked with the former leader of the Union of Right Forces Nikita Belykh, subsequently arrested on charges of corruption (taking a bribe on an especially large scale).
Alexey Anatolyevich became interested in the program of Yale University (“Yale World Fellows”). Every year, about fifteen gifted people from different countries are selected under this program. Garry Kasparov, Evgenia Albats, Sergei Guriev and Oleg Tsyvinsky, considering Alexei Navalny very promising for the study of global problems of international understanding, gave him a recommendation. In 2010, Alexei completed the prescribed six-month course. According to the leader of the Communist Party Gennady Zyuganov, "Mr. Navalny is a political 'product' made in US labs for yet another pogrom against Russia."
In 2013, Alexei Anatolyevich Navalny competed with Sergei Sobyanin in the Moscow mayoral elections. Took second place. Then Alexey headed the Central Council of the political association "Party of Progress".
Candidate for mayor of Moscow A. Navalny met with voters (Photo: Mikhail Metzel / TASS)
And finally, in 2016, Alexei Navalny entered the presidential path. On the Dozhd TV channel, he announced his participation in the presidential elections in Russia, which will be held in 2018.
On December 25, 2017, the Central Election Commission refused to register Alexei Navalny because he did not have a passive electoral right due to an outstanding conviction for a serious crime. In turn, the oppositionist threatened the authorities with a strike of voters and an appeal to the Constitutional Court, SP wrote earlier. However, the 2018 elections took place without Navalny.
Alexei Navalny and the fight against corruption in Russia
Alexei Navalny in his political activities relies on the fight against corruption in the country. Since 2008, he has been investigating what he believes to be corruption cases. He uncovered violations in various funds, published articles on the investigation of corruption cases in Russia. In his blog, which Navalny maintains on LiveJournal, he discusses and gives advice on how to effectively fight corruption. According to media reports, in 2008, Alexei Anatolyevich acquired shares in almost all large Russian companies, then, as a minority shareholder, accused the top management of companies of numerous abuses, filing lawsuits, Navalny tried to increase the transparency of the companies.
In 2010, Alexei Navalny created the non-profit public project RosPil, with the help of which he fought elements of corruption in public procurement. As part of the project, website users reported corruption, experts conducted an assessment, and project lawyers wrote complaints to regulatory authorities demanding the cancellation of corrupt purchases.
Realizing that the fight against corruption works well in politics and responds to public demand, Alexei Navalny continued his investigations. In 2011, Navalny created the Anti-Corruption Foundation, a non-profit organization that brought together previous anti-corruption projects. The Anti-Corruption Fund includes the coordinators of Navalny's projects RosPil, RosYama, RosVybory, The Kind Machine of Truth, and RosZhKH.
An important part of the activities of the Anti-Corruption Foundation has become documentaries dedicated to the investigations of the Navalny Foundation. In December 2015, Alexei Navalny posted on the Internet the film "The Seagull", in which the Anti-Corruption Foundation shared its investigation into the activities of the sons and colleagues of the Prosecutor General of the Russian Federation Yuri Chaika. The film aroused great interest and in the same month received a special prize at the Artdocfest festival. Yuri Chaika called Navalny's investigation custom-made and false. The Swiss Attorney General's Office, responding to the complaint of the Anti-Corruption Foundation, found no evidence of corruption in relation to Artem Chaika.
Navalny's second high-profile film was " He is not Dimon”, released in March 2017. The film of the Anti-Corruption Foundation tells that the Prime Minister of Russia Dmitry Medvedev allegedly owns multibillion-dollar real estate, heads a multi-level corruption scheme, using charitable foundations and various organizations. Navalny's film about Medvedev also aroused great interest, gaining more than 2.5 million views on YouTube in the first day alone. Prime Minister's Press Secretary Natalya Timakova called Navalny's film a propaganda attack, and the press secretary of the President of the Russian Federation Dmitry Peskov, commenting on the FBK investigation, noted that "these are not the first examples of the work of this famous convicted citizen."
At the same time, a group of deputies of the State Duma of the Russian Federation from the Communist Party of the Russian Federation proposed that the State Duma Committee on Security and Anti-Corruption Control check the information of the Anti-Corruption Foundation.
Alexei Navalny in the FBK office (Photo: fbk.info)
It was under the pretext of a lack of reaction to the investigation of the Navalny Foundation that Alexei Anatolyevich managed to bring a lot of people to rallies at the end of March in a number of Russian cities. On March 26 in Moscow, according to the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, 7,000-8,000 people gathered on Tverskaya Street. According to media reports, about 1,000 activists were detained, including Navalny himself, who was then fined 20,000 rubles for organizing an unauthorized mass rally in the center of the capital and arrested for 15 days under Art. 19.3 of the Code of Administrative Offenses (CAO RF) for disobedience to a lawful order of a police officer.
Criminal cases of Alexei Navalny
Navalny has been a witness in a number of criminal, administrative, civil and arbitration cases. But he is also the accused and the defendant, for example, in the well-known "Case of Kirovles". Alexei Navalny was accused of being an adviser to the governor of the Kirov region, in May-September 2009, in collusion with the director of the Vyatka Forest Company, Pyotr Ofitserov, and the general director of Kirovles, Vyacheslav Opalev, organized the theft of more than 10 thousand cubic meters of timber in the amount of over 16 million rubles . Aleksey Anatolyevich was sentenced in 2013 by the Kirov Regional Court to 5 years, later the term was replaced by a suspended sentence. In 2016, the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation overturned this verdict “in view of the decision of the European Court of Human Rights, which found a violation of the right to a fair trial in the investigation documents.” On February 8, 2017, the Leninsky District Court of Kirov re-sentenced Navalny and his partner Pyotr Ofitserov to 5 and 4 years of probation.
On June 15, the Kirovles company filed a lawsuit to recover 16 million rubles in compensation from Alexei Navalny, Petr Ofitserov and Vyacheslav Opalev in the embezzlement case. In July, the Nikulinsky Court of Moscow ruled that they must pay 2.1 million rubles to the Kirovles company. Thus, the court satisfied the claim of Kirovles against Navalny only partially.
Alexei and Oleg Navalny, accused of embezzlement from the Yves Rocher cosmetics company (Photo: Artem Korotaev / TASS)
In the Yves Rocher case, Alexei Navalny was charged along with his brother Oleg. The company accused Navalny of fraud and money laundering. On December 30, 2014, Navalny was again sentenced to 3.5 years of probation.
In May 2017, the news that the well-known businessman Alisher Usmanov filed a lawsuit against the FBK for the protection of honor and dignity caused a big stir. In addition, in a special video message, Usmanov responded to the accusations against him by Alexei Navalny, in the first day alone, over 6 million people watched the video on all social networks. In the second appeal, Usmanov again criticized the opponent, comparing Navalny with Bulgakov's hero Polygraph Poligraphovich Sharikov.
On May 15, 2018, the Tverskoy Court of Moscow appointed Navalny 30 days of arrest for disobeying the police at a protest rally that took place on May 5 in Moscow and was not agreed with the authorities.
In June 2018, the Simonovsky Court of Moscow extended for another year the probationary period for opposition politician Alexei Navalny in the Kirovles case, obliging him to report to the Federal Penitentiary Service four times a month.
"SP" reported that on the morning of October 14, Navalny was released after 50 days of arrest.
On October 15, Alexei Navalny announced that he had become a defendant in a criminal case initiated under Article 128.1 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation: "Slander combined with accusing a person of committing a grave or especially grave crime."
According to him, the plaintiff in this case is an employee of the Ministry of Internal Affairs Pavel Karpov, in whom the Anti-Corruption Fund headed by Navalny found “elite real estate objects, luxury cars, etc., and in quantities that are by no means available to an employee of the Ministry of Internal Affairs even with the highest salary.
"Duel" with Zolotov
After Aleksey Navalny published on his website an investigation titled "Potatoes of the Russian Guard", which alleged that the Russian Guard was buying food at inflated prices, the head of the Russian Guard, Viktor Zolotov, recorded a video message in response to Navalny's accusations. The head of the National Guard challenged the politician to a duel and promised to turn him into a chop in just a few minutes. Also, General Zolotov called Navalny "an opposition pug, a product from an American test tube, a clone and a puppet." According to Zolotov, the politician has been given the task of throwing mud at everyone in order to destabilize the situation in the country.
On October 18, Free Press reported that Alexei Navalny responded to the challenge of the head of the National Guard, Zolotov, to a duel, reserving the right to choose weapons and the place of the duel.
“I accept your challenge, and, as expected, I choose a place and weapons. Our duel will take place in the form of live debates on Channel One or any other federal channel,” he said on the air of his YouTube channel.
Viktor Zolotov, in turn, recalled that he invited Navalny not to a debate, but to a competition of a different kind, but promised to answer the oppositionist, although he still does not know in what format
Political views of Alexei Navalny
Alexei Navalny positions himself as a national democrat. At the same time, he denies the label of a nationalist attached to him. Although earlier Aleksey Anatolyevich noted that nationalism “should become the core of the political system of Russia”, he was a participant in the Russian March nationalist processions, spoke out against migrants who go to Russia with their “very peculiar values”.
In the election program Alexey Navalny continues to focus on the corruption of power and the fight against bureaucracy. The first point of his program is the introduction of a large one-time tax for the oligarchs, which compensates for the injustice of privatization. He also proposes complete exemption from taxes, regulation and reporting for individual entrepreneurs, a radical debureaucratization of housing construction, which will reduce housing prices, and other things that entice the voter.
Alexei Navalny with his wife and children (Photo: navalny.com)
Family of Alexei Navalny
Alexei Navalny is married to Yulia Borisovna Navalnaya(Abrosimova). Has a daughter, Daria (2001) and a son, Zakhar (2008).
Brother - Oleg Anatolyevich Navalny. Until May 2013, he worked as Deputy Director of Automated Sorting Centers, a branch of the Russian Post, First Deputy Director of the EMS Russian Post Express Delivery campaign.
As befits a politician, Alexei Navalny is very active on social networks, posts his photos on Instagram, retweets on Twitter, and posts on Facebook. Navalny does not miss the chance to promote himself, so in August he responded to the request of one of the portals, which announced an award among users for a video with a politician. As a result, Alexei Navalny and his wife filmed a video of a walk around the city and sent it to journalists. According to the politician, he was paid only 10 thousand rubles, the news reported. Alexei Navalny said that he was waiting for the remaining amount, otherwise he would go to court. And the politician promised to transfer the received money to his election fund.
Navalny does not always succeed in PR, for example, a photo posted on Instagram at the end of August, in which Alexei enthusiastically eats noodles with the caption “I love doshik,” caused a wave of parodies and photoshops on the Internet. The phrase “Navalny eats doshirak” has become a meme, a photo of a politician is attached to a variety of historical characters, however, it is not clear whether such a stir is in favor of the oppositionist himself.
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The court appointed Navalny another 20 days of arrest ... September. This decision was made by Judge Elena Armyashina, RBC correspondent reports. Navalny a violation of the procedure for holding mass events was charged, which caused harm to human health ... the judges, calling the administrative case “invented”. Armyashina refused her own challenge. Navalny stated that he had not yet watched the video message from the director of the National Guard Viktor Zolotov ...Politics, 24 Sep 2018, 17:14
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Alexey Anatolyevich Navalny- who is he? A truth-seeker who longs for justice for his people, or another character who believes that it is his turn to buy yachts and planes at the expense of the state budget? A fighter for the well-being and sovereignty of his country or a crazy nationalist? Is he really ready to prove his statements with deeds, or is this another Druzhko who came for the sake of hype, only from the side of politics?
So let's start with who is Navalny? Opposition politician, founder of the Anti-Corruption Foundation and extremely active against the current government. Besides, is a candidate for the post of President of the Russian Federation in 2018.
Very little is known about Alexei's childhood years. Navalny was born and raised in the village Butyn, Odintsovsky district, Moscow region. His father is from Ukraine, from the village of Zalesye, which was located in the Chernobyl zone, where little Alyosha spent every summer with his grandmother, grazed cows and dug in the beds, but after the accident at the nuclear power plant, the village was erased from all maps. Mother also comes from a village located near Zelenograd in the Moscow region.
As Navalny himself once said: “I consider myself mostly Ukrainian, in terms of my roots and genetics”.
As for the rest of the family, today, Navalny has wife and two children.
After school, Alexey enters the Faculty of Law of the Peoples' Friendship University of Russia, and a year after graduation, he enters the Academy under the Government of the Russian Federation, specializing in Securities and Exchange Business.
Studying at higher educational institutions, Navalny along the way, he tries to do business, but he does not find much success in this area. He was the founder of several firms, but they all did not generate income and went bankrupt.
Alexei felt the first taste of success when he got involved in politics. Since the early 2000s, he has worked as a deputy director in the company "Allect" and things were going mediocre, but in 2007 there were elections to the Duma, and the firm on the advertisement of the party of right forces cut down 99,000,000 rubles from which Navalny received a commission of almost 5,000,000 rubles.
Advertising for right-wing parties was not Aleksey's only connection to politics. In 2000 he joined the party "Apple" and rose to the position of head of the Moscow branch of the party, at the same time broadcast on the radio "Echo of Moscow", but was soon expelled from the ranks of the party with the wording: "For nationalistic activity". Navalny, on the other hand, said that he was removed for criticizing the leadership, and he himself considers himself to be normal nationalists.
A rather contradictory statement, because for many of us, nationalists are bald thugs in berets under the banner of the black-yellow-white tricolor. It is unlikely that Alexei is like one of them.
If we consider the nationalist ideas and proposals of Navalny, they do not seem so absurd. And later Navalny creates moderate nationalist party "People". One of the most interesting ideas of which is introduction of a visa regime with the countries of the Caucasus.
Despite the scandal, Navalny does not lose touch with the party "Apple" and on their recommendation goes to study at Yale University.
Upon return passes exams and gets a lawyer's crust, creates its own law office, which didn't win a single case, and in less than a year, was eliminated.
But the most important thing that Alexey began to do after returning from Yale University was to conduct corruption investigations, to criticize the current government in the country more intensively and to create anti-corruption projects like RosPila and RosYama.
He starts his own blog where publishes an article like During the construction of an oil pipeline in China, 4 billion US dollars were stolen. The blog takes off to the first lines of the top Yandex blogs and brings Navalny the first unthinkable popularity on the network. In 2011, the blog ranked first place among the blogs of politicians and public figures.
After his participation in protest movements begins, the courts for " Kirovles and Yves Rocher, as a result of which he almost sat down, but the cases were obviously fabricated against him.
Participation in the elections for the post of mayor of Moscow, where Navalny takes second place, losing to Sobyanin. By the way, even then Alexey received the approval of many media personalities at a concert in support of his election campaign performed absolutely free several show business stars. Such as Diana Arbenina(gr. Night Snipers) and Vladi(gr. Kasta). By the way Caste not so long ago she released her new album, where she raises acute social topics in her tracks.
And the most important thing - Navalny epic breaks into Russian YouTube with film "He is not Dimon to you". He finds a platform that is not limited by censorship and allows him to convey the truth to the maximum number of viewers. Alexei becomes one of the top bloggers in the country, while not conducting challenges with condoms on their heads and not surveying expensive cars.
Although… He became an excellent observer of expensive yachts, cottages and estates of Usmanov and Medvedev. However, he became an observer of the entire life of the Russian people, who, outside the Moscow Ring Road, plunged into poverty and continuous problems. He denounced the true face of people's poverty in the vastness of the richest country. He found the root of the problems and was never unfounded, confirming his every word with weighty facts and documents revealed in the course of his own investigations, on which years were spent.
Each of us is free to judge for himself how honest this character is with the audience when he promises: "Give me power and it will work for you". Our resource is by no means a supporter of imposing our conclusions on the reader, but looking at the reaction of the authorities, which makes custom videos in which it highlights unsubstantiated facts about Navalny or buys "pop prostitutes" and "true" rappers like Ptakhi who were drug addicts yesterday, and today they are on the side of the government.
Close-minded bloggers are invited to the Duma to dissuade young people from going to rallies.
It’s easy to take the right side, even if you are extremely critical of the statements of both opponents (Navalny vs. the current government), and we live in an era when YouTube viewers need “proofs”.
And Navalny provides them to us, unlike the newly minted richest billionaire blogger Alisher Usmanov, which not only unable to provide evidence for his statements and hardly fits even in widescreen monitors of the audience, so also behaves familiarly and in places rudely in relation to both Navalny and the viewer.
We do not in any way call on our readers to take radical action and do not say that we are full supporters of the oppositional ideas of Alexei Navalny. All we want to convey is that corruption in Russia has become an obvious fact. And it flourishes to the very top. Servants of the people simply have their own people, and we are resigned to the fate of the slaves of our servants.
And if we sum up the full analysis of Navalny’s activities, then for now he is a clear people’s leader, but as practice shows, it’s not the one who collects views and subscribers, receiving popular recognition, standing with the people in the squares, who wins, but the one who has power over the ballot boxes at the polling stations. In general, referring to the words of the great:
Good luck, friends and good mood to you!
The arrest of an oppositionist for participating in a rally for 30 days did not surprise anyone - this happens almost after every protest action. Considering that Alexei Navalny is currently serving a suspended sentence in the Kirovles case, according to the Criminal Executive Code, the politician faces a real term for systematic violation of public order. However, the Russian authorities are in no hurry to put Navalny in jail.
There are several possible versions for this:
- Navalny is a representative of the Kremlin's "pocket opposition";
- The figure of Navalny is beneficial in the election campaign, since his candidacy will be removed due to a criminal case, and government officials may legally lose an important competitor;
- They do not want to get involved with Navalny because of external pressure and the growth of protest moods.
The latter, however, can hardly be called a serious reason for refusing criminal prosecution, since the people in Russia did not react properly even to the murder of Boris Nemtsov. Moreover, Navalny's work with the people seems to be specifically aimed at depriving the opposition of its main activists. For example, even agreed-upon protests are moved to illegal venues, causing protesters to pay hefty fines by refusing to participate in subsequent events.
Therefore, the location of Navalny can be easily chosen from three options: work at the headquarters, a rally, an insulator. The politician actively travels around Russia, opens new headquarters, is engaged in information coverage of compromising evidence, after that he appoints a protest action, and safely sits in a monkey house.
Where does Alexey Navalny live?
Alexei Navalny lives with his family in Moscow, in the Maryino district, on Lyublinskaya street. In the most ordinary panel high-rise building. Navalny's three-room apartment in Moscow is an extremely modest option with laconic furnishings and a total area of 75 m2. The footage of searches in the house of the oppositionist was repeatedly broadcast by TV channels and YouTube, the declaration of income confirms the existence of this property.
Also, information flashed on the Internet that Navalny owns a house in France worth 3 million euros. However, the politician has not visited this country in recent years, and the news about overseas real estate has not been confirmed by anyone.
At the same time, according to the income statement, Navalny's wife owns a Ford Explorer SUV, and the politician himself was seen driving a luxury Infinity car.
What does Navalny do?
Alexei Navalny is engaged in political activities, and at the same time is a shareholder in a number of companies. Previously, the politician took part in the management of various corporations, including being a member of the board of directors of Aeroflot.
From a political point of view, Alexei Navalny has taken a win-win position by starting an active fight against corruption in the public sector. He founded the Anti-Corruption Foundation, made the films The Seagull and He Is Not Dimon to You, which received hundreds of millions of views on YouTube.
Despite pro-Western statements and accusations of links with the current government, Navalny's activities have found great support in Russia, especially among the younger generation. However, people of the older generation, who never received support from the state, also often go to opposition rallies.
At the same time, it cannot yet be said that Navalny's activities are capable of influencing the situation in Russia. Rallies continue to be held in unauthorized places, not a single lawsuit on their films has been won by politics.
Where Navalny is now and what he is doing in view of the extremely banal “film-illegal rally-prison” scheme is easy to predict.
Alexei Navalny's Twitter has been hacked. Responsibility was taken by the hacker Hell, who later promised to post a fresh batch of personal correspondence from the blogger's mail.
On the night of Monday to Tuesday, a whole series of pseudo-provocative messages appeared on Alexei Navalny's Twitter, immediately revealing the fact that his account had been hacked.
Judging by the handwriting and the statement of the cracker himself, this is the work of the hacker Hull, known for hacking Navalny's mail, as well as. It seems that Hull's sole purpose was to announce Navalny's upcoming new mailbox drain.
Despite the fact that Navalny has more than 259,000 readers, the hacker only spoke to a few.
The resourceful blogger PoliTrash decided to help his colleague get at least some benefit from access to the account.
On Twitter, Hull catches lulz from the reaction of users who are not enlightened in the mechanisms of hacking.
At 1:49 a.m. (that is, 11 minutes after the first tweet), Alexey wrote a LiveJournal post with a cross-post to Twitter, where he said that he had been hacked: “Obviously, through computers / iPads seized during the search. Such is the Investigative Committee. Georgy Alburov, coordinator of the RosVybory project, reported that the passwords were changed immediately after the search, and Dmitry Ternovsky asked a reasonable question.
After some time, fake accounts were created @real_navalny and @navalny_real that reported the hack. The first was retweeted by some by mistake, and the second was actively promoted by Konstantin Rykov.
Anna Veduta, the press secretary of Alexei Navalny, took care of the security of her leader's accounts in time.
