The answer to the question "Who is Navalny" cannot be unambiguous. Like the person in question. For some, he’s just the author of an Internet meme about crooks and thieves, and for someone he’s a thief himself, because he “stole the whole forest”. For some, it is nothing more than an obscure Internet creation, and for others, it’s a modern political knight in shining armor, with two higher educations: legal and economic, plus a person holding a certificate from Yale University under the Yale World Fellows program - Yale Worldwide Partners. For some, this alone can be an absolute compromise, and therefore for them he is a politician, a thief and a troll, and … Russia's main anti-corruption.
Currently, Alexei Navalny has been convicted and is under house arrest; in addition, several more criminal cases have been instituted against him, some of which are already being considered in court. One thing unites all these matters: objectively, there is not a single injured party from whom Navalny stole something. Moreover, recently in one of the cases - Yves Rocher - it turned out that his activities brought profit to the company and the company itself has no complaints about it. But, of course, he will be convicted, because the Investigative Committee of Russia (IC RF) has “claims” to him. In another way. Why is "evil rock" so haunting one person?
Background
Alexey Navalny came into politics in the early 2000s. He came to the party "Apple". But in 2007 he was expelled with the wording "for causing political damage to the party, in particular, for nationalist activity."
Actually, Navalny himself never hid his nationalist views, taking part in the formation and leadership of moderate nationalist movements, rallies and marches. Perhaps, over time, becoming an increasingly popular politician, he only became more cautious in his statements so as not to scare away a possible liberal electorate with such intolerant views. It’s certainly impossible to call Alexei Navalny the ultranationalist and it will never occur to anyone, but
Despite all his political growing up, questions from a small liberal-democratic public, one way or another forming a reputation, about his views on nationalism will remain. They will remain, since the media space contains the foul-smelling pearls allowed by the politician in the early discussions on this topic. At the same time, Navalny always successfully managed to balance on a fine line between national-democratic and ultra-nationalist views, and a little more than a year ago he consistently substantiated his nationalist views, expressing in one of the discussions the conviction that nationalism "should become the core of the political system Of Russia."
History
By the time of “separation” of Navalny from “Yabloko” on the Internet, social network diaries and most of all the Live Journal, where Alexey became one of the most rated bloggers by publishing social and political posts - trolling - about corruption, gained popularity. The most popular was the post, and then the trial with the Russian state company Transneft in 2008, with which he won a trial. It was then that he immediately became tightly “biased” by the IC of Russia. Moreover, since 2008, the political career of Aleksey Navalny began to gain rapid momentum: he had numerous sincere supporters who helped him to wage a difficult fight against Russian corruption. In the same year, the creation of the “Russian National Movement” was announced, which included organizations of the Movement Against Illegal Immigration, Great Russia and the People’s movement led by Navalny.
After 2008, the exposures by Navalny and his supporters of the stolen organizations, banks and companies sawing into the budget of the country, officials receiving kickbacks for permission for a particular activity and enriching themselves at the expense of the working people and the simple middle class, while buying up elite real estate far beyond the borders of Russia, began to take on cosmic proportions. Among those exposed: status “sharks” from VTB Bank and the Investigative Committee of Russia, top managers of monopolistic state-owned companies and deputies of the State Duma, and all of them, for the most part, are successful members of the United Russia party.
It was the fact that most of the exposed corruptionists belonged to the United Russia party and once gave Alexey Navalny the opportunity to improvise a phrase during a radio broadcast that later became a popular and popular Internet meme: "United Russia is a party of crooks and thieves, " or briefly - ПЖиВ. To be precise, the lawyer and also a member of EP Shota Gongadze, who had obviously not heard of the "Barbara Streisand effect" and unfamiliar with the Internet community of trolls, unexpectedly helped popularize this slogan.
