Alexei Navalny: vacation abroad for his children, bunk beds in jail for strangers. We play everything! Navalny takes his children to study in the US Navalny's children study abroad

On which he and his wife Yulia Navalnaya escorted their daughter Daria to the tenth grade. Meanwhile, in social networks, including in various accounts on Instagram, students of the 45th gymnasium named after L.I. Milgram, photographs were published on the same day, which depicted Alexei Navalny himself. Here, for example, a user with the nickname vladeroshenko publishes a photo with the founder of FBK on September 1, on which the geotag is clearly visible - and this is the same elite 45th gymnasium.

In addition, in social networks there are photographs of students against the background of the same facade, in front of which Alexei Navalny was photographed with his wife and daughter, and the geolocation of the published photos gives a specific address in Moscow - Grimau Street, 8, where the 45th gymnasium named after L.I. Milgram. You can compare facade decor elements in photographs of other users, for example, and.

It should be noted that the gymnasium has an advanced program of preparation for entering Western universities under the International Baccalaureate program. The Diploma Program (IB Diploma Program) is "a unique pre-university course for high school students, which makes it possible at the end of training to receive an officially recognized diploma, which provides the right to continue education in the best universities in the world."

As stated on the website of the gymnasium, the International Baccalaureate diploma is recognized in more than 100 countries around the world. In the USA, Canada, Ireland, Great Britain, Belgium, France, Norway, Sweden, Australia, New Zealand and some other countries, applicants with an IB diploma are admitted to universities without entrance exams, only the passing score and the requirements for grades in the diploma for a certain set of subjects are specified.

At the same time, the provision of this educational service is paid. According to the regulation on the admission of students to the 10th grade of the GBOU "Gymnasium No. 45" of the Moscow Department of Education for studying in the International Baccalaureate Diploma Program (IB Diploma Program) for the 2014/2015 academic year, the total cost of the full (two-year) course of the diploma program is 500,000 rubles; at the same time, according to Life's sources in the Moscow Department of Education, for the 2017/2018 academic year, the price has currently increased and amounts to 700 thousand rubles. As a source close to Navalny confirmed to Life, his daughter Daria is studying at the paid preparatory department of the international baccalaureate.

Navalny himself has repeatedly spoken out extremely negatively about the facts of the children of famous politicians studying abroad. So, in particular, speaking about the children of the former Vice Speaker of the State Duma Zheleznyak, Navalny wrote in his blog:

There was supposedly some kind of rumor, so many sources confirmed that just about all officials, up to employees of state corporations, would be forced to withdraw their offspring from studying abroad and transfer them all to Russian schools and universities. I then did not even begin to speak on the topic for lack of sense to comment on anything. The scheme “I steal, I earn here, I spend there” has taken root in the system of values ​​of a modern official so much that no decrees can eradicate it. This is what neither is a real United Russia spiritual bond.

And here is how the founder of FBK and the "presidential candidate" commented on the situation with the children of the ex-head of Russian Railways Vladimir Yakunin:

Viktor and Darina have an eight-year-old daughter, the granddaughter of Vladimir Ivanovich, Polina Yakunina. Polina, like her cousin Igor, also seems to limit herself to just a couple of paragraphs about Russian history, because she studies at a prestigious Swiss school, where they bring up the very "Western elite" who dream of destroying Russia, soullessly tearing it apart.

As Life wrote earlier, Alexei Navalny sent two of his children to a summer educational camp in the United States, where they spent about a month, and the FBK founder himself noted in comments on social networks that he sees nothing wrong with foreign education for his children.

Alexei Anatolyevich Navalny is a lawyer, popular opposition blogger and public figure, founder of the Anti-Corruption Foundation, chairman of the Progress Party. In the past, he was a member of the board of directors of Aeroflot. He ran for mayor of Moscow in the 2013 elections and finished second.

The main activity of Navalny is aimed at combating corruption. Among the most high-profile investigations by FBK Navalny and his team are the case of Igor Chaika (son of Prosecutor General Yuri Chaika), Vladimir Yakunin's "fur coat store", Dmitry Peskov's watch, Vladimir Pekhtin's real estate, Sergei Shoigu's mansion, Igor Shuvalov's plane and "king-apartment", Dmitry Medvedev's "secret empire". Navalny also actively advocated the ratification in Russia of the 20th article of the UN Convention, which provides for punishment for illegal enrichment of officials.

In 2013, Navalny was found guilty in the "Kirovles case", but three years later, the European Court of Human Rights recognized the case as politically fabricated and sent the verdict for review, but the court again returned a guilty verdict.

In December 2016, Navalny announced his intention to take part in the 2018 presidential election.

Childhood. Education

Alexei Navalny was born in the military town of Butyn near Moscow. His father, Anatoly Navalny, a native of the Chernobyl region, graduated from the Kiev Military School, after which he was assigned to Moscow. Mom, Lyudmila Ivanovna, grew up in a village near Zelenograd, graduated from the State University of Management, worked as a laboratory assistant at a research institute that produced microelectronics, and later worked at a woodworking factory.

In 1993, Navalny's parents opened a wicker weaving workshop in the Odintsovo district of the Moscow region on the basis of a bankrupt factory, where Lyudmila Navalnaya had previously worked.

In 1994, a young man graduated from the Alabinsky school in the village of Kalininets near Moscow and entered the law faculty of the Peoples' Friendship University of Russia, missing one point for admission to Moscow State University. In 1999, he became a student at the Financial Academy under the Russian Government, studied at the Faculty of Finance and Credit, and in 2001 received a diploma in the specialty "Securities and Exchange Business".

Much later, in 2010, he became a Yale World Fellow. Every year, the university selects about 15 gifted people, mostly from third world countries, and invites them to Yale for six months to study the global problems of our society.

Labor activity and business

While still studying at RUDN University, Navalny got a job as a lawyer at Aeroflot Bank. In 1997, he registered Allekt LLC, and in 1998 he began working for the Chigirinsky brothers' ST-group (now Snegiri). There he worked for about a year, dealing with currency control and antitrust law. In 1999, two things happened - Navalny left ST-Group and received a law degree.

Public and political activities

In 2000, Alexei Navalny joined the Yabloko Democratic Party and was a member of the party's Federal Political Council. Two years later, he was elected to the regional council of the capital branch of Yabloko. From 2004 to 2007, Navalny headed the apparatus of the Moscow regional branch of the party.

In 2007, Navalny was expelled from Yabloko. The reason given was "causing political damage to the party, in particular, by nationalist activities." As Navalny himself argued, the real reason for his expulsion is the demand for the resignation of Yabloko leader Grigory Yavlinsky.

In 2004, Navalny founded the Committee for the Protection of Muscovites, a city-wide movement against corruption in urban planning and the violation of citizens' rights. A year later, Alexey, together with like-minded people, stood at the origins of a new youth movement called "DA!". He also began to coordinate the project "Police with the people."

Since 2006, Navalny has coordinated the Political Debates project and acted as the chief editor of the Fight Club program on TVC.

In 2007, he co-founded the national democratic movement "People" along with writer Zakhar Prilepin and Sergei Gulyaev. It was planned that subsequently the "People" would join the "Other Russia" coalition, but this did not happen.

Political debate between Navalny and Lebedev

In 2008, Navalny founded the Union of Minority Shareholders, an organization that protected the rights of private investors.

Navalny took part in the nationalist marches "Russian March". In 2008, he witnessed the brutal detention of the leader of the "Slavic Union" Dmitry Demushkin by riot police, and was ready to defend him in court.

In 2008, information appeared about the creation of the "Russian National Movement", which included the organizations "Great Russia", "People", DPNI. Navalny said that the movement plans to participate in the elections to the State Duma. But in 2011, the movement ceased operations.

Navalny's video in support of the People movement

In 2009, Navalny became a freelance adviser to the governor of the Kirov region Nikita Belykh, who, as the site's editors would like to note, was arrested in the summer of 2016 on charges of accepting a bribe.

Anti-corruption activities

In May 2008, Navalny announced on his blog that, together with like-minded people, he intended to find out why the oil of large Russian state-owned companies was being sold by trader Gunvor. According to Alexei, he appealed to the leaders of Rosneft, Surgutneftegaz and Gazprom Neft, but did not receive an explanation. By the way, Navalny is a minority shareholder in the companies Surgutneftegaz, Rosneft, Gazpromneft, VTB.

At the end of 2010, Navalny announced the creation of the RosPil project, which intended to fight abuses in public procurement. By May 2011, the project reported on the discovery of fraud with state auctions in the amount of 1.6 billion rubles, and with the help of RosPil participants, fraud worth 337 million rubles was stopped. The project received an award from The BOBs international blog competition as the most useful resource for society.

In 2011, Navalny registered the Anti-Corruption Fund (FBK). Economist Sergey Guriev, entrepreneurs Vladimir Ashurkov and Boris Zimin invested in the project.

"Party of crooks and thieves" - the author of this famous Internet meme is Alexei Navalny. The phrase was born on February 2, 2011 on the air of Finam FM. Soon there was information that ordinary members of the party were offended and plan to sue. In response, Navalny initiated a poll on his blog: "Is United Russia a party of crooks and thieves?" 96.6% of the respondents, the total number of which was 40 thousand, answered “yes”.

Navalny on the air of "Fimam FM"

In mid-2011, Alexei Navalny launched the RosYama Internet project as part of the FBK, which was supposed to encourage the Russian authorities to improve the condition of roads in the country. On the pages of the project, users posted pictures of damaged roads, on the basis of which the system generated complaints to the traffic police. In the absence of a response within the stipulated time, RosYama employees sent a letter to the prosecutor's office.

In early 2012, Navalny and his team launched the RosVybory project to monitor the presidential elections. About 17 thousand observers took part in the project.

The Alexei Navalny Anti-Corruption Foundation positions itself as the only non-profit organization in Russia that investigates acts of corruption among the highest echelons of power.

The head of the Russian Railways, Vladimir Yakunin, to whom the Foundation attributed the presence of a “modest” dacha near Domodedovo with an area of ​​​​several tens of hectares, fell under the FBK’s sights more than once. Most of all, Internet users were struck by a separate room given over to a “fur coat store”.

A lot of noise was made by the private plane of Igor Shuvalov, discovered by Navalny, on which they flew to exhibitions of his Welsh Corgi dog breed, as well as the official buying up apartments on one floor of an elite high-rise building on Kotelnicheskaya Embankment. FBK estimated the total cost of pre-repair apartments at 600 million rubles.

Navalny in the election of the mayor of Moscow

Alexei Navalny put forward his candidacy for the post of mayor of Moscow in the 2013 early elections from the RPR-Parnassus party.

And about. Mayor Sergei Sobyanin commented on Navalny's actions as follows: “To be honest, I don't know what prospects Navalny's candidate has. We have done everything possible to register it, so that Muscovites have the opportunity to have a greater choice among candidates for mayor of Moscow.”

Judicial persecution. Case of Kirovles

On December 5, 2011, that is, the day after the elections to the State Duma, Alexei Navalny spoke at a sanctioned rally on Chistoprudny Boulevard. The Muscovites who came to the rally expressed their disagreement with the results of the elections, made accusations of fraud against the election commission and the United Russia party.

After this action, Navalny and like-minded people went on an unauthorized march to the Central Election Commission of Russia, where he was detained by the police. The next day, Navalny was found guilty of resisting law enforcement officers and sentenced to 15 days of administrative arrest. Navalny was released on December 21.

On May 9, 2012, Navalny was again sentenced to 15 days in prison. This time - for participating in an illegal public event on Kudrinskaya Square, the so-called Folk Festivals, which became a mass sign of protest against the dispersal of the March of Millions, which took place earlier, on May 6. The participants of the march were dissatisfied with the fact of Vladimir Putin's inauguration. This detention and arrest Navalny appealed to the European Court of Human Rights.

In May 2011, a criminal case was opened against Alexei Navalny under Art. 165 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation - "causing property damage by deceit or breach of trust." It was about the fact that Navalny and businessman Pyotr Ofitserov, the owner of the Vyatka Forest Company, allegedly misled the director of the State Unitary Enterprise Kirovles Vyacheslav Opalev, as a result of which he signed a contract unfavorable for his enterprise and suffered damage of 16 million rubles.

Navalny denied his guilt, citing the biased nature of the case, since shortly before that he presented information on cuts in Transneft on his blog, and also accused Opalev of “creating completely unthinkable schemes” for the sale of logging. According to Navalny, he achieved the dismissal of Opalev and a complete audit of Kirovles, which was the reason for initiating the case.

Navalny: "The Truth about Russia, Power and Putin", 2011

After litigation, the case was dismissed on April 10, 2012. The reason is the absence of corpus delicti. Later it was resumed by order of the leaders of the TFR. However, on May 29 of the same year, the decision to dismiss the case was canceled.

The case was brought back to court in April 2013. Testimony of witnesses for the prosecution indicated that cooperation between Kirovles and VLK was unprofitable for the former. However, VLK's partners testified that the timber was shipped to them at market prices, and they have no claims against both defendants in the case. The governor of the Kirov region, Belykh, who spoke at the trial, also stated that the activities of VLK did not harm the region.

On July 18, 2013, Navalny was sentenced to five years in prison and a fine (500,000 rubles), Officerov was sentenced to four years in prison and a similar fine. The verdict was made during the election campaign of Navalny in the mayoral elections.

During the next day's appeal hearing, Navalny and Ofitserov were released on bail. In the course of further consideration, violations were found in the issuance of a guilty decision, and the real terms were replaced by conditional ones, while maintaining the fine. Alexei Navalny appealed to the ECHR, which in February 2016 confirmed the violation of the rights of the accused in the Kirovles case, but did not recognize the case as politically motivated, as Navalny's and Ofitserov's lawyers insisted.

The Kirovles case: Navalny's last word

At the end of 2016, the court again began considering the Kirovles case. The new verdict, according to Navalny, literally repeated the previous one. The defendants were again sentenced to 4 and 5 years probation. On the same day, the ECHR condemned the verdict, calling the goal of the entire process the exclusion of Navalny from the country's political process.

Alexey Navalny 2018

In December 2016, Navalny announced that he intended to take part in the 2018 presidential election, thereby launching his election campaign, during which he, along with like-minded people, opened a number of campaign headquarters in major Russian cities.

Alexei Navalny is aiming for the presidency

In March 2017, the Foundation posted on YouTube a 50-minute film “He is not Dimon to you”, which was an investigation of a “multi-level corruption scheme” with the participation of Dmitry Medvedev. Three weeks later, thousands of people rallied across Russia demanding answers from Medvedev about the information contained in the video.

"He is not Dimon to you"

On March 26, during an unsanctioned rally on Tverskaya Street, Alexei Navalny was detained by law enforcement agencies. He was fined (20,000 rubles) for organizing an unsanctioned rally, and also sentenced to 15 days of administrative arrest for "resisting the lawful demand of a police officer."

On June 12, Russia was swept by the second wave of opposition rallies. This time, Alexei did not have time to leave the entrance, as he was detained by the police. The Simonovsky District Court of Moscow arrested him for 30 days, accusing him of repeatedly violating the rules for holding rallies: on the evening of June 11, he called on supporters to go to an unauthorized procession on Tverskaya Street, where the festival of reenactors was taking place at that time, instead of the agreed rally on Sakharov Avenue. In total, more than 800 people were detained during the opposition rally in Moscow.

As part of the election campaign, the politician held a number of large-scale rallies in Russian cities.

The Central Election Commission refused to register Navalny for the presidential elections due to a criminal record in the Kirovles case, despite the decision of the ECtHR, which recognized him as politically engaged. After that, Aleksey called for a boycott of the elections and announced the date of the all-Russian voter strike - January 28th.

How Mikhail Prokhorov bought a villa from Alexander Khloponin

For the action against the inauguration of Vladimir Putin “He is not your king” (held on May 5, 2018), ten days later, Navalny was arrested for 30 days. The election campaign ended, and the FBK returned to its main activities: it caught Mikhail Prokhorov in a bribe to Deputy Prime Minister Alexander Khloponin, found a Parisian apartment for 2 million euros from propagandist Aram Gabrelyanov, etc.

Personal life of Alexei Navalny

Alexei Navalny is married. The oppositionist's wife's name is Yulia, Abrosimova's maiden name. They met in 1999 at a resort in Turkey. The couple are raising two children: daughter Daria (born 2001) and son Zakhar (born 2008).

For a long time, the couple lived in a small apartment in one of the panel houses on Lyublinskaya Street, Maryino. However, at the end of 2016, the oppositionist said that he was looking for housing for rent, as his grown children began to live in the same room.

Alexey Navalny now

In August 2018, the FBK posted a video investigation involving State Duma Speaker Vyacheslav Volodin and his 82-year-old mother, Lidia Barabanova, a former school teacher. The oppositionist cited evidence that the woman owns an apartment worth more than 200 million rubles, as well as several businesses, one of which was registered quite recently. Navalny's team claimed that Barabanova was a figurehead for registering companies, and that her son was their true owner. The video caused a wide response, given that a few days earlier, Volodin publicly predicted the complete abolition of pensions in the absence of pension reforms and advised the people gathered in the hall to play more sports in order to live to retirement age.

FBK: Vyacheslav Volodin's mother's apartment and business

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Alexey Anatolyevich Navalny. Born on June 4, 1976 in the military town of Butyn, Odintsovo District (Moscow Region). Russian political and public figure, lawyer, investment activist, former member of the board of directors of Aeroflot. The author of one of the highest-rated socio-political blogs in LiveJournal. He positions himself as a fighter against corruption in Russia.

Alexei Navalny was born on June 4, 1976 in the military town of Butyn, Odintsovo District, Moscow Region.

Father - Anatoly Ivanovich Navalny, co-owner and general director of the Kobyakovskaya wicker weaving factory, was born and graduated from school in Zalesye (formerly the Chernobyl region, now the Ivankovsky region, Kiev region), after graduating from the Kiev Military School of Communications, he was appointed near Moscow.

Grandfather Ivan Tarasovich was a carpenter and almost all his life, like his wife Tatyana Danilovna, he worked on a local collective farm.

Mother - Lyudmila Ivanovna Navalnaya, co-owner and commercial director of the Kobyakovskaya wicker weaving factory, comes from a rural area near 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, in 1975 she married Anatoly Ivanovich, after graduating from the institute she worked as an economist, from 19 87 years old - Deputy Director for Economics.

Navalny's parents currently own the Kobyakovskaya basket weaving factory in the Odintsovo district, where Alexei is the founder.

Brother - Oleg Anatolyevich Navalny, until May 2013 - Deputy Director of the Automated Sorting Centers company, a branch of the Russian Post, First Deputy Director of the express delivery company EMS Russian Post.

Cousin - Marina Navalnaya.

According to A. Navalny, all his relatives lived in Ukraine, and until 1986 he himself spent every summer in the Kyiv region. But after the accident at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant, part of the relatives moved to other regions of Ukraine.

He considers himself more of a Ukrainian in terms of "some kind of roots and genetics." According to his uncle, more than half of Navalny's relatives live in Zalesye and Pereyaslav-Khmelnitsky.

In 1993, Navalny graduated from the Alabinsky secondary school in the military settlement of Kalininets in the vicinity of the village of Taraskovo near Moscow.

He studied well, however, he says, he constantly clashed with teachers - "because my perception did not fit that a teacher automatically becomes an authority just because he is a teacher".

Ros is a cynic and anti-Soviet, a kind of juvenile dissident.

“As a child, I was a “scoop” larva. It was in this wording. “Sovok”, a person who despises Soviet power and tries to squeeze it out of himself, because already in early childhood, on a subconscious level, or something, it seemed to me that something was wrong with this country. , which runs counter to the observed reality ... since the beginning of the 80s, we have had a receiver broadcasting the "Voice of America" ​​... " he says.

In 1997, he founded Nesna LLC, the main activity of the company was hairdressing services. For some time, "Nesna" handed over "zero" balances, and then was sold.

In 1997 he registered LLC "Allect". In 1998-2005, he held the position of Deputy Director for Legal Affairs in this company. In the 2007 Duma elections, the Allekt company was an advertising agent for the Union of Right Forces party. In total, SPS purchased advertising for 99 million rubles through Allekt, Navalny received a commission of 5% from this, that is, 5 million rubles.

In 1998-1999 he worked in the development company ST-Group. Among other things, he dealt with currency control and antitrust law.

In 1998 he graduated from the Faculty of Law of the Peoples' Friendship University of Russia.

In 1999, he entered the Faculty of Finance and Credit of the Financial Academy under the Government of the Russian Federation (specialty "Securities and Exchange Business"), graduating in 2001.

In 2000, together with friends from the Faculty of Law of the RUDN University, he opened a firm "N. N. Securities. Navalny was the owner of a 35% stake in this company and served as chief accountant in it. "N. N. Securities traded securities on the stock exchange, as a result, this company went bankrupt. According to Navalny, playing on the stock exchange, he lost "what little money" he had.

The year 2000 can be considered the beginning of political activity, when Navalny joined the Russian United Democratic Party Yabloko and was a member of the Federal Political Council of this party. In 2002 he was elected to the regional council of the Moscow branch of the Yabloko party. From April 2004 to February 2007 - head of the apparatus of the Moscow regional branch of the RODP "Yabloko". During the period of party activity, he became friends with SPS functionaries Nikita Belykh and Maria Gaidar.

Alexei Navalny combined business and politics.

In 2001, Navalny co-founded Eurasian Transport Systems LLC. The company was engaged in logistics, earning on road freight.

In 2006, he was the host of the Town-Planning Chronicles program at the Ekho Moskvy radio station.

In 2007, Navalny co-founded the national democratic movement "People".

In 2008, the creation of the "Russian National Movement" was announced, which included the organizations DPNI, "Great Russia" and "People".

According to the Vedomosti newspaper, in the spring of 2008, Navalny bought shares in Rosneft, Gazprom, Lukoil, Surgutneftegaz, and Gazprom Neft for about 300,000 rubles. Then he began to fight for his rights as a minority shareholder.

In 2009, Navalny established LLC "Navalny and Partners", in 2010 this company was liquidated.

In 2009, Navalny passed the qualification exam at the Chamber of Advocates of the Kirov Region.

In 2010, Navalny transferred to the Moscow City Bar Association. During his legal practice, he participated in 11 cases in arbitration courts, and only in two of them personally, and in other cases, his representatives spoke on his behalf.

He says about his studies at Yale that it was there that he decided to seriously take up the fight against corruption in Russia.

"In a nutshell, this is something like a very cool advanced training course for people from all over the world who have already succeeded in many ways in their profession, but strive for new heights and expanding their social circle. So, Serezha Guriev (Rector of the Russian School of Economics) and Oleg Tsyvinsky (Professor of Economics at Yale) were able, thanks to them for this, to "get through" to me and insist that it would be nice for me to take these courses, especially in terms of international corporate law. in fact, the program is much broader, which was not there, and with whom only we met ... By the way, it was at that time that we just launched Rospil, we really took up state corruption. After all, the State Department teaches Russians how to save budget money ... ", - Navalny said in an interview with Voice of America.

Alexei Navalny - interview with The New Times

On December 5, 2011, the day after the elections to the State Duma, Navalny spoke at a rally sanctioned by the authorities and held by the Solidarity movement on Chistoprudny Boulevard. The purpose of the rally was to express disagreement with the results of the elections and accuse the authorities of large-scale fraud. After the end of the event, he, along with several hundred more participants, took part in an unauthorized march to the building of the Central Election Commission of Russia on Lubyanka, during which he was detained by the police and subsequently received 15 days of administrative arrest.

On May 9, 2012, he was again sentenced to arrest for 15 days for participating in an illegal public event that took place in the early morning of that day on Kudrinskaya Square.

In February 2012, Alexander Lebedev's National Reserve Bank (NRB) (which owns 15% of Aeroflot) nominated Navalny as a candidate for Aeroflot's board of directors. Navalny agreed to become a director, saying that if elected, he would focus on corporate governance and anti-corruption activities.

June 25, 2012 Navalny joined the board of directors of Aeroflot according to the decision of the annual meeting of shareholders. 787 million votes were cast for Navalny, which, with a total number of votes of 12.1 billion, is 6.5% (the votes of the NRB and a number of other minority shareholders). Navalny became a member of the Personnel and Remuneration Committee of the Board of Directors of Aeroflot. In February 2013, it was reported that Navalny had not been nominated as a candidate for the new board of directors of Aeroflot.

On December 14, 2012, the Investigative Committee of Russia initiated a criminal case against Alexei Navalny and his brother Oleg Navalny on the fact of committing crimes under Part 4 of Art. 159, p.p. "a", "b" part 2 of Art. 174.1 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (fraud committed by an organized group on an especially large scale and legalization of funds acquired as a result of a crime by a group of persons by prior agreement and using their official position).

According to investigators, Navalny created the Main Subscription Agency LLC company, with which in the spring of 2008 an unnamed trading company entered into an agreement to carry out cargo transportation of mail. According to the investigation, the agreement was concluded with the participation of Oleg Navalny, who at that time worked as the head of the Department of Internal Mailings of the FSUE Russian Post branch - Automated Sorting Centers, who convinced the company's managers to conclude an agreement at a deliberately inflated cost. At the same time, the “Main Subscription Agency” did not have its own material base for transportation, and in fact they were engaged in another enterprise, which was led by an acquaintance of Oleg Navalny.

Later it became known that a criminal case against the brothers Alexei and Oleg Navalny was initiated at the request of the head of the Russian division of the cosmetics company Yves Rocher, Bruno Leproux. His application addressed to the head of the ICR, Alexander Bastrykin, was received by the Investigative Committee on December 10, and on the same day the materials of the criminal case were submitted to a separate proceeding.

According to the RF IC, a total of 55 million rubles were transferred to the account of the “Main Subscription Agency”, while the actual cost of services was 31 million rubles. Most of this amount was, according to the investigation, spent by the Navalny brothers for their own needs, and more than 19 million rubles were legalized by the Navalny by concluding fictitious contracts with the Kobyakovskaya basket weaving factory, the founders of which were, among other things, the Navalny brothers themselves.

Alexei Navalny with his brother Oleg

On December 30, 2014, the court announced the operative part of the verdict: Oleg Navalny was sentenced to 3.5 years in a penal colony, Alexei Navalny was given a 3.5 year suspended sentence. The brothers must pay more than 4 million rubles to the MPK company, in addition, each of them was sentenced to a fine of 500 thousand rubles.

On April 4, 2013, on the air of the Dzyadko-3 program on the Dozhd TV channel, Alexei Navalny announced that he planned to take the post of President of Russia in the future. With this step, he "wants to change life in the country", and to ensure that the inhabitants of Russia, a country rich in natural resources, do not live "in poverty and hopeless squalor", but live "normally, as in European countries."

In 2013, in the early elections of the mayor of Moscow, he was nominated as a candidate from the RPR-Parnassus party.

On March 20, 2014, during the Crimean crisis, The New York Times published an article by Navalny asking for more sanctions against "Putin's inner circle". In particular, Navalny called on Western countries to freeze financial assets and confiscate the property of major Russian businessmen. The Navalny Anti-Corruption Foundation has prepared an expanded list of persons for sanctions by the European Union. This document was published on the website of the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe.

In January 2015, Alexei Navalny, in his blog, accused Senator and head of the Anti-Maidan movement Dmitry Sablin of owning undeclared real estate. In November 2015, Dmitry Sablin and his wife filed a lawsuit against Navalny for the protection of honor and dignity, demanding compensation for moral damages in the amount of 5 million rubles each. However, the reason for the lawsuit was not the January investigation of the FBK, but the post of Navalny on June 12, where, in particular, he called Anti-Maidan a movement "in defense of the property of Senator Sablin, received as a result of bribes and fraud, thanks to his marriage to the daughter of the governor, who stole billions from the budget of the Moscow region." The court found Alexei Navalny guilty and ordered him to pay Dmitry Sablin 408 thousand rubles.

On February 20, 2015, Navalny was placed under administrative arrest for 15 days for unsanctioned campaigning in the subway.

On October 8, 2015, Alexei Navalny was restricted the right to travel abroad due to the fact that he did not pay off a debt of 4.5 million rubles in due time. Timur Korobitsyn, a representative of the Federal Bailiff Service of Russia in Moscow, said that “the Office of the Federal Bailiff Service for Moscow is conducting enforcement proceedings to recover a joint and several debt from Alexei and Oleg Navalny in the amount of more than 4 million 490 thousand rubles in favor of OOO Multiprofile Processing Company.”

In December 2015, Aleksey Navalny paid the fines under the claim of the Diversified Processing Company and, according to him, the enforcement proceedings against him were terminated.

On December 1, 2015, Alexei Navalny posted a documentary and a longread online "Gull", dedicated to the investigation of the Anti-Corruption Foundation on the activities of the sons and colleagues of the Prosecutor General of the Russian Federation Yuri Chaika. In particular, the authors of the investigation claim that the Deputy Prosecutor General is connected with the Tsapka gang from the village of Kushchevskaya, the eldest son of Yuri Chaika Artem made a fortune on the raider seizure of enterprises, and the youngest, Igor, on illegally obtained government contracts. The film received a special prize at the Artdocfest documentary film festival in December 2015.

The film's budget was 250,000 rubles, and brought donations to the Anti-Corruption Foundation in the amount of 3.5 million rubles.

On December 7, 2015, Dmitry Peskov, the press secretary of the President of the Russian Federation, said that the film did not arouse the interest of the Kremlin, since it was not about the Prosecutor General, but about his adult sons.

At the beginning of 2016, Switzerland considered the complaint of Alexei Navalny against Artyom Chaika. On December 8, 2015, the Anti-Corruption Foundation sent a corresponding complaint to the Swiss Prosecutor General's Office that Artyom Chaika and other persons had been laundering money in Switzerland for at least ten years. An audit conducted by the supervisory authority did not find facts of money laundering that would be associated with the name of Artyom Chaika. In addition to Chaika, other persons were also listed in the complaint, in respect of whom an inspection was also carried out. In order to eliminate the bias of the check, the prosecutor's office entrusted the investigation to a special police unit in Lugano, canton of Ticino, investigating "white-collar" crime.

Ruslan Shumakov (Artem Chaika's lawyer) reported to the RBC newspaper that Artem Chaika had received a notification from the Swiss prosecutor's office that there were no claims against him. Ruslan Shumakov additionally conveyed information that Artyom Chaika, on the basis of his own request, received from Greek officials confirmation of the legality of the transactions he carried out in Greece (acquisition of a hotel on the island of Halkidiki).

On February 8, 2017, the Leninsky District Court of Kirov re-sentenced Navalny and Ofitserov to 5 and 4 years of probation. Navalny noted that the court's verdict literally repeats the old one, issued in 2013. On March 3, an appeal was filed against the verdict to the Kirov Regional Court. At the meeting on March 15, 2017, the court did not consider the complaint on the merits, but returned the case to the district court to eliminate procedural violations. At the next meeting, which took place on May 3, the court confirmed the earlier verdict. Navalny's defense reiterated their intention to appeal the verdict to the ECtHR.

On March 2, 2017, FBK published an investigative film "He is not Dimon to you" about the alleged assets of Dmitry Medvedev, Prime Minister of Russia. The film was narrated by Navalny, who claims that Medvedev is leading a multi-level corruption scheme, owning multibillion-dollar real estate acquired through charitable foundations and organizations legally registered with proxies, with the money of oligarchs and loans from Gazprombank.

According to Navalny, said in the video, his investigation took more than one month. Press Secretary of the Russian Prime Minister Natalia Timakova said that commenting on Navalny's investigation is "meaningless", as it is a "propaganda attack" by the opposition. Medvedev himself at first did not comment on the FBK investigation and on March 10 blocked Navalny on Instagram.

Navalny called on his supporters to go to rallies on March 26, 2017. Protests were held in 82 cities of Russia, some of them gathered several thousand people. After the rallies, Medvedev described Navalny as a "tried character" and called the FBK investigation "nonsense", filmed for "big money" not from "the people", but from "private sponsors".

Speaking in the State Duma on April 19, 2017, Medvedev declined to comment on the investigation, calling it "absolutely false products of political crooks."

In its turn, entrepreneur Alisher Usmanov filed a lawsuit in April 2017 against Navalny and FBK, and on May 18 of the same year he recorded a video message to Navalny, in which he severely criticized him, noting that he felt "the terrible envy of a loser and a failed businessman who started his business with kickbacks on small transactions", and also rejected the accusations against him, emphasizing that Navalny's attempts "to slander me are barking a pug at an elephant."

On May 24, 2017, Usmanov, in response to Navalny's challenge to come to the debate, where he promised his opponent to give an answer to all the charges, recorded a second video message, where he noted that he "waited for an apology, not a debate", instead of which "I heard from him another accusations, lies, cheap populism."

Usmanov compared Navalny with the character of M. A. Bulgakov's story "Heart of a Dog" Polygraph Poligrafovich Sharikov, "who dreamed of taking everything away and dividing" and expressed the opinion that Navalny was his "worthy successor." In addition, he pointed out that "if Sharikov is a stupid and uneducated demagogue", then Navalny "is not just a demagogue, but also a highly artistic liar" and stated that when Navalny's untruth is documented, he begins to get scared and declare that he is threatened. Usmanov refused to debate, believing that this was a “debate between truth and lies” and summed up that all “debates will be in court”, where Navalny, whom Usmanov called “Aleksey Poligrafovich Navalny”, “will explain the difference between truth and lies.”

On May 31, 2017, the Lyublinsky District Court of Moscow fully satisfied Usmanov’s claim against Navalny and ordered the defendant “to delete videos and publications posted at the specified addresses within 10 days and publish a refutation for a period of at least 3 months at these addresses.” Thus, the court ordered the film to be removed from YouTube, as well as to remove the site where the investigation was posted, and to remove and refute the post saying that Usmanov gave a bribe to Deputy Prime Minister Igor Shuvalov, and information about censorship at the Kommersant publishing house, controlled by Usmanov.

Alexey Navalny - Mind Games

Director of the Effective Policy Foundation Gleb Pavlovsky expressed the opinion that Navalny's goal is to create a "political project" with the formation of a certain "electoral sector" with the aim of its further transfer on certain conditions to one of the opposition parties or movements. Pavlovsky believes that the idea of ​​creating such a social populist project was taken in the West, comparing, in particular, Navalny's activities with the "Tea Movement" in the United States.

According to the leader of the Communist Party Gennady Zyuganov, expressed on the occasion of the Moscow mayoral elections in 2013, "Navalny sat with Saakashvili together on the same bench, trained in America how to fool Russian citizens."

Height of Alexei Navalny: 188 centimeters.

Personal life of Alexei Navalny:

In 1999, while on vacation in Turkey, Alexey met his future wife Yulia (Yuliya Borisovna Navalnaya, maiden name - Abrosimova). The holiday romance ended with a wedding.

Alexei Navalny with his wife Yulia

The couple has two children: daughter Daria (born in 2001) and son Zakhar (born in 2008).

Alexei Navalny with his family

The spouses say that at home they have a complete separation of spheres of influence: Yulia supports her husband's political views, but does not give advice on work, and he does not interfere in the household and raising children.

The Navalny family lives in the Maryino district near Moscow in an ordinary panel house in an "economy class" apartment with an area of ​​about 80 square meters.

Alexei Navalny is a well-known Russian public and political figure leading a public fight against corruption. He is considered a symbol of the Russian non-systemic opposition. He is the author of the highest-rated political blog on LiveJournal and the head of the RosPil project aimed at combating abuses in public procurement. The biography of Alexei Navalny is full of scandals and criminal cases in which he was held as the main accused of major theft and fraud. The attitude of the population towards the activist and oppositionist Navalny is ambiguous - some consider him a bright fighter for truth and justice, while others, on the contrary, see him as an ordinary populist who, with his pronounced attitude against government agencies and political parties, is trying to deceive the people.

early years

Navalny Alexey Anatolyevich was born on June 4, 1976 in the military town of Butyn, located in the Moscow Region. His parents, Anatoly Ivanovich and Lyudmila Ivanovna, were ordinary people who, at the time of democratic changes, managed to become businessmen, owners of the Kobyakovo basket weaving factory. According to Alexei himself, his family tree is closely connected with Ukraine, since a significant part of his relatives lived in this country. In the future, voters and users of social networks will ask Oleksiy Anatolyevich more than once about his position on Ukraine, asking for an opinion on the events that took place in the neighboring state in late 2013 - early 2014. In his blog on LiveJournal, Navalny will present in detail his own conclusions and vision of changes in Kiev.

The school years of the future non-systemic oppositionist were spent in the military settlement of Kalininets, where he graduated from high school in 1993, after which he moved to the Russian capital. In Moscow, Navalny immediately entered the Peoples' Friendship University at the Faculty of Law. In 1998, having received a law degree, the young lawyer decided to expand his professional base, and to complete this task he became a student at the Financial Academy under the Government of the Russian Federation. Simultaneously with his studies in finance and credit, Alexei worked as a lawyer at Aeroflot Bank and the development company ST Group.

Having received a diploma in financier, Navalny did not stop there and took a 6-month course at Yale University under the Yale World Fellows grant program, where he managed to get on the recommendations of Sergey Guriev and Evgenia Albats, "venerable" Russian oppositionists, whose opinion was then very heeded in America.

Career and business

The labor career of Alexei Navalny started in his student years, but had an exclusively business direction. For several years, he became the founder of a dozen enterprises with “zero” income, which, after a short period of activity, he sold very successfully. This fact already then already interested critics who suspected the future opposition leader of fraud and organization of machinations.

In 2008, Alexei Navalny became interested in "investment activism" and began to buy up small stakes in the companies Transneft, Surgutneft, Gazpromneft, Rosneft, VTB and Sberbank. Having become a full shareholder, he began to demand disclosure of information about the activities of the management of these structures, on which the income of shareholders depended. At that time, he called the Gazprom company his main opponent and was even able to initiate a criminal case against one of the managers of a large corporation.

Along with the business, the income from which allowed the young lawyer to live comfortably, Navalny was actively involved in political activities.

Policy

The start in politics was the democratic party Yabloko, in which he held leadership positions until 2007, thanks to the support of his associates, and.

After being expelled from Yabloko, Navalny co-founded the national-democratic movement "People" and became an active participant in the radical procession "Russian March".

In 2009, Alexei Navalny was elected as a freelance adviser to the Governor of the Kirov Region Nikita Belykh and headed the non-profit organization "Initiative Support Fund" of the head of the Kirov Regional State Administration.

Alexei Navalny often criticizes not only current officials, but also those who have already held leading positions in the public administration system. In particular, viewers remembered the discussion of the oppositionist with the reformer of the 90s on the program “Direct Conversation”, which she led. In the studio of the Dozhd TV channel, questions were raised not only about the activities of the state corporation Rosnano, of which Chubais is the general director, but also, in general, the problems of financing this company and Russian science were discussed.

Gradually, Alexei Anatolyevich becomes one of the leaders of the opposition in Russia, and after the assassination, it is Navalny who is considered the main critic of the authorities within the country. Navalny himself blames the Russian top leadership for the murder of his political colleague and friend. According to him, there was a "terrorist attack that did not achieve its goal."

Elections of the mayor of Moscow

Soon, his plans included the goal of becoming the mayor of Moscow, and in 2013 he was registered with the Moscow City Electoral Committee as a candidate, but he failed to win the election - Alexei Navalny won 27% of the vote, which did not give him the right to take the high post of the capital's mayor.

The election results, of course, did not satisfy the headquarters of the non-systemic oppositionist, and the very next day after they were announced, he organized a rally in Moscow on Chistoprudny Boulevard in order to show disagreement with the announced voting results. After the rally, he led an unsanctioned procession to the Central Electoral Commission of Russia, during which he was detained by police and received 15 days of administrative arrest.

At that time, he had already created his anti-corruption Internet projects RosPil, RosYama and RosVybory, and also registered the Anti-Corruption Fund, which, in his opinion, should have created for him the image of an uncompromising anti-corruption official and made him a positive hero in the eyes of the population. But for a long time Navalny failed to achieve such a status, as many criminal cases with his participation began to “come to light”.

Arrest and criminal cases

The criminal prosecution of Alexei Navalny started in 2011, when he was convicted of a crime, namely, inflicting property damage by deceit. According to the results of the investigation, a well-known non-systemic oppositionist was sentenced in 2013 to 5 years in prison, but the day after the verdict, Alexei Anatolyevich was released on bail. Then both the Russians and the international community condemned Navalny's sentence, considering it politically motivated. Even the Russian president expressed his attitude towards the verdict, calling it "strange". After reviewing the case, the court changed the sentence and changed it to a suspended sentence.

Navalny's second high-profile criminal case was the trial of the Yves Rocher company, in which he, along with his brother Oleg, were accused of large-scale embezzlement and money laundering by a French company. As a result, the court sentenced Alexei Anatolyevich to 3.5 years probation, and his brother received a real term in the same amount. The brothers-accomplices were also fined 4.8 million rubles.

The Kirovles case is another high-profile criminal proceeding against Navalny. Consideration of the case on the facts of possible damage to the Kirov State Enterprise "Kirovles" will be delayed for years.

Despite this, Navalny remains a leader for many Russians, especially Muscovites. Many consider the figure to be a people's political leader, and his activities are called useful for Russian society and the economy. In 2012, according to Time magazine, he became the only Russian to be included in the TOP 100 most influential people in the world.

Navalny Foundation

In 2011, Alexei Navalny created the non-profit organization Anti-Corruption Foundation, which would later become a very large-scale structure in Russia. The new structural formation unites all Navalny's projects, and the public figure himself refuses various kinds of anonymous donations.

The founders of the new fund were able to gain tremendous experience in public and transparent fundraising by arranging financing for the RosPil project. Using the Yandex.Money payment system, the fund raises a significant amount of funds to ensure its normal functioning. In addition, professional lawyers and economists are also actively involved in the work of the organization, who carefully try to identify illegal schemes in the public procurement system.

The management of the fund approached in detail the development of a strategy for its actions in various areas, and the main task of the structure is the organization of local situations in which the state apparatus will feel pressure from the public. According to the creators, such a unit can become a real alternative to the current system of public administration. The founders of the foundation themselves have repeatedly argued that the activities of such a structure cannot at all be considered an attack on the Russian state itself, because the participants in the process of forming the system of power are interested in the stability and durability of all branches of the state apparatus, and total pressure on officials will contribute to positive internal transformations throughout the country.

Alexei Navalny in the office of the Anti-Corruption Foundation

The issue of financing the fund has always been of interest not only to government officials, but also to other prominent public figures, as well as ordinary citizens. According to the leaders of the organization, a transparent fundraising system was created, within which $300,000 was used for the annual budget. Navalny himself has repeatedly argued that initially the fund needed mass support, because it is the receipt of funds from completely different categories of citizens that confirms the honesty and openness of the organization.

It was the financing of the structure that interested ordinary Russians the most. Who is behind him? Soon, many Russian voters began to ask a similar question, trying to find out details about Navalny's activities. In Russia itself, representatives of some political forces openly call Alexei an "American spy", and the foundation is accused of raising funds from abroad.

The Investigative Committee searched the office of the Anti-Corruption Foundation

The foundation will soon present several investigative films. One of the first tapes that causes public outcry in Russia is the investigative documentary "The Seagull". The filmmakers presented a new investigation into the business and criminal ties of the sons of the Prosecutor General of Russia. Further anti-corruption revelations followed.

Navalny himself also fueled interest in the activities of the fund with his publications on the microblogging service. Twitter. In particular, one of the posts that the Deputy Prime Minister's asset manager purchased an entire floor in one of the elite skyscrapers caused a storm of indignation among members of the public. The oppositionist demanded an investigation into this matter.

Alexey Navalny now

In March 2017, unsanctioned rallies took place in many regions of the Russian Federation. Thousands of citizens who gathered in the squares of the country's major cities demanded an investigation into the corruption component in the highest echelons of power.

The reason for the mass protests was the film of the Navalny Foundation about the property of the Prime Minister of Russia. Many Russians were clearly shocked by the information provided by the results of the investigation, which reported that one of the country's top officials is the owner of a "secret empire" that has been created through complex corruption schemes. According to Navalny, Medvedev allegedly manages huge funds and assets, and the close circle of the official controls the flow of funds to the accounts of organizations. It is assumed that tens of billions of rubles were steadily transferred to the accounts of such structures. Such compromising evidence excited the Russian public.

The indignation of citizens was supported by some deputies. In particular, representatives of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation demanded the creation of an investigative commission that would be able to conduct a transparent investigation, as well as check all the materials.

Navalny commented on his desire to participate in the elections as the desire of people who, he believes, are already massively supporting his anti-corruption program. According to the opposition figure, he is obliged to participate in the elections, as he carries political representation for these people.

There were also incidents in Navalny's political career. On March 19, 2017, at one of the protest actions organized against the increase in tariffs for housing and communal services, the politician was pelted with eggs in Novosibirsk. Nevertheless, this did not prevent the oppositionist from meeting people and listening to their problems.

Personal life

Personal life of Alexei Navalny against the backdrop of his scandalous career is not particularly remarkable. In 1999, while on vacation in Turkey, he met his future wife, Julia, a holiday romance with which ended in a wedding. For 15 years, she has been creating a reliable rear for him at home and puts up with all the "side effects" of her husband's political activities.

Friends and associates of Navalny believe that he has a strong and wonderful family, in which two children are brought up - Daria and Zakhar. The spouses themselves say that at home they have a complete separation of spheres of influence: Yulia supports her husband's political views, but does not give advice on work, and he does not interfere in the household and raising children.

The Navalny family lives in the Maryino district near Moscow in an ordinary panel house in an "economy class" apartment with an area of ​​about 80 square meters. Also, the Russian oppositionist owns Hyundai and VAZ-21083 cars, and his wife owns a Ford car. According to official figures, in 2012 Navalny's income amounted to 9 million rubles, which became known during his election campaign for the post of mayor of Moscow.

A noteworthy fact is that Alexei Navalny's height is 189 centimeters. This makes it possible to attribute the political and public figure to one of the highest representatives of the Russian politicians.

The Administration of the President of Russia told Russian officials, deputies and employees of state corporations to return their relatives who live abroad to their homeland, sources told Znak. Snob collected the stories of the children of Sergei Lavrov, Elena Mizulina, Dmitry Peskov and other prominent statesmen who lived or still live abroad for a long time.

Press Secretary of the President of Russia Dmitry Peskov

Peskov's eldest daughter, 18-year-old Elizabeth, has been studying in France for almost her entire life. “From the age of 9, we began to send our daughter to study at a boarding school in France, where she subsequently studied for several years.<…>After leaving school, Lisa decided that she wanted to live and study in Russia, she entered ISAA (Institute of Asian and African Studies at Moscow State University), but a year later she realized that she missed France, with which she had too much to do, and where many childhood friends remained. She returned to Paris and entered the business school at the Faculty of Luxury Marketing, ”said Ekaterina Peskova, Peskov’s ex-wife and Elizabeth’s mother, in one of her interviews.

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov

Ekaterina Vinokurova (nee Lavrova) graduated from Columbia University in New York with a degree in political science. After that, Lavrov's daughter studied economics in London. In recent years, Ekaterina has lived in Moscow and heads the Russian branch of the Christies auction house, the world leader in art sales.

Senator from the Omsk Region Elena Mizulina

The senator's son Nikolai, having received a diploma from the Moscow State Institute of International Relations, studied at the Universities of Bern and Oxford. He married Spanish citizen Patricia Gonzalez and lives with her and their two children in Brussels. Nikolai is a partner at Mayer Brown, a law firm that defends the rights of the LGBT community.

LDPR party leader Vladimir Zhirinovsky and his son, State Duma deputy Igor Lebedev

Lebedev's children and, accordingly, Zhirinovsky's grandchildren studied at the American School in Switzerland (The American School In Switzerland), to which their parents made substantial donations. So, in the winter of 2014, the Lebedevs sent 60,000 Swiss crowns (about $6,784) to the school.

According to the official version, Zhirinovsky's grandchildren received their secondary education at a boarding school at Moscow State University. In 2014, blogger Giorgi Jakhaia exposed them. “Zhirik, who so waters the West with everything he can, really sent his grandchildren to the American School. Well, at least they will come out normal, ”- wrote he on his Facebook, posting a screenshot of the page confirming the statement from the official website of the school and links to pages with information about sponsors.

Aide to the President of Russia Andrey Fursenko

The son of the former head of the Ministry of Education and Science, Alexander, received his education abroad: a bachelor's degree from New York University in 2001 and a second degree from Stanford Law School in 2005. Since then, he has been a licensed attorney in California, Illinois, and New York.

State Duma deputy Vyacheslav Fetisov (United Russia faction)

Anastasia, the 25-year-old daughter until recently of the senator from Primorsky Krai, and in the past of the famous hockey player Vyacheslav Fetisov, entered the graduate school of the New York University School of Cinematography in May 2016 and is preparing to become a director. “I will miss Moscow madly, but I have been striving for this since my third year. I'm looking forward to opening the second chapter of my life in New York - already a graduate student at NYU!" wrote She is on her Facebook.

Anastasia was born in the USA. When she was 12 years old, the Fetisov family returned to Russia. Then Anastasia did not yet know how to read and write in Russian.

State Duma deputy Sergei Zheleznyak (United Russia faction)

In 2012, the head of the Anti-Corruption Foundation, Alexei Navalny, reported that 3 daughters of the politician were studying abroad. So, Ekaterina, one of the deputy’s daughters, at that time studied at an American school in Switzerland with Zhirinovsky’s grandchildren (her education, according to Navalny’s calculations, cost Zheleznyak 21.8 million rubles), and the other, Anastasia, at Queen Mary University in London (for 3 years Zheleznyaki paid 1.9 million rubles). Their sister Elizabeth, Navalny believes, also studied in London, but the oppositionist failed to establish an educational institution. All of the photos and social media posts referenced by Navalny have already been deleted and are only preserved on his blog.