Alexei Navalny

CNN Editorial Research. Here is a look at Russian opposition leader, Kremlin critic and activist Alexey Navalny. Personal. Birth date: June 4, 1976.

The penalty for defamation, a fine, was changed to include potential jail time in December 2020. The next day, he is ordered to remain in custody for 30 days during a surprise hearing. April 29, 2021 - Navalny's network of regional offices for his political movement will be "officially disbanded," chief of staff Leonid Volkov announces. February 23, 2016 - The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) rules that Navalny and Ofitserov were deprived of the right to a fair trial in their 2013 conviction. Navalny criticized a video broadcast by state TV channel RT, in which prominent figures expressed support for controversial changes to the Russian constitution. January 2021 - Russian prison authorities officially request to replace Navalny's 2014 suspended sentence with a real jail term. Novichok was used in a March 2018 attack on former Russian spy Sergei Skripal and his daughter, Yulia Skripal, in the English cathedral city of Salisbury. German NGO The Cinema for Peace Foundation says it is sending a medical plane to Russia in an attempt to evacuate him. Phone and travel records suggest the unit followed Navalny to at least 17 cities since 2017. August 21, 2020 - Russian doctors give Navalny's team permission to move him. His brother receives a sentence of three and a half years in prison. Receives a suspended sentence of three and a half years.