The Dissident: Alexey Navalny: Profile of a Political Prisoner
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There’s an old saying that many Russians regard as an inviolable law of nature: a Russia without corruption isn’t Russia. Alexei Navalny’s refusal to accept this proposition—his stubborn insistence that Russians can defy the stereotype and create an entirely different country—has made him such a threat to President Vladimir Putin and the Russian political system that the Kremlin wanted him gone, either exiled or dead.
Here, investigative reporter David Herszenhorn weaves together the five primary threads of Navalny's remarkable life and work, including:
The assassination attempt by poisoning in Siberia, his recovery in Germany, and his vigilante-style investigative collaboration with Bellingcat to identify suspects;
Navalny’s personal biography, including the year he spent in the Yale University Fellows program that has spurred conspiracy theories about his ties to the U.S.;
His anti-corruption investigations—beginning with his 2010 exposé about embezzlement at Transneft, a state-controlled oil company, and continuing until his most recent blockbuster revelations about Putin’s Black Sea Palace;
His political activism, including the organization of white ribbon protests following the fraudulent Duma elections in 2011, his 2013 campaign for mayor of Moscow, and more.
Riveting and complex, THE DISSIDENT introduces readers to Russia's greatest and most effective agitator, a man so willing to sacrifice his freedom—and even his own life—to build the country he wants to live in and hopes to pass on to his children.”