Since rising to prominence in the early 2000s, Alexei Navalny has been convicted of defying government officials, embezzlement, fraud, parole violations and contempt of court. He has now been sentenced to another 19 years in prison.
In 2010 he founded RosPil, an anti-corruption project run by lawyers that monitored the spending of state-run organisations and enabled them to bring several cases of suspected violations to court.
Navalny was the first of around 300 people to be arrested. He was jailed for 15 days for"defying a government official". Eventually he was handed a three-and-a-half year prison suspended prison sentence - but his brother Oleg was jailed.In late-2015 FBK's first long-form investigation was released. The YouTube documentary 'Chaika' accused then-Russian prosecutor General Yury Chaika of corruption and ties to a notorious criminal group - and received 26 million views.
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