How Alexei Navalny became Putin's greatest threat

Navalny's movement is unlike any in recent history.

In 2006, a lawyer named Alexei Navalny started a blog where he wrote about corruption in his home country of Russia. It’s the most prominent problem under the regime of Vladimir Putin, who has ruled Russia since 2000. Putin has systematically taken over the country’s independent media, oligarchy, elections, and laws to cement his own power and wield corruption to his advantage.

That’s what Navalny set out to expose. And in 2010, he published a groundbreaking investigation into a state-owned transportation company, Transneft, which was funneling state money into the hands of its executives. The post launched Navalny into politics.

By 2016, he had become the face of Russia’s opposition movement, run for mayor, and was running for president against Putin himself. Navalny was unifying Russia’s opposition like no politician had before. That’s why the Kremlin tried to kill him. Navalny survived the assassination attempt, launching a movement never before seen in Russia.

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Note: The headline has been updated
Previous headline: Why Putin wants Alexei Navalny dead

[sudarshan]

The person who came up such a creative idea of using cards to explain this deserve a raise...

[herbertant]

427 Billions in corruption, man thats not a corruption its a GDP of a nation.

[MarinaAli]

Came back to this video after hearing about this passing

[unknownyoutuber]

Who's here after his death?
RIP to the closest person Russia had to a real opposition to Putin.

[AAG]

"when you attempt to silence a man, you only show that you fear what he has to say"

[johnnyharris]

man this was super helpful. I made a video about Navalny but it was a totally different approach, much more about Navalny's videos and style not so much his history. All this context is vital for understanding Navalny and Russia generally. Amazing job Sam and team!

[norbertkocsis]

Anyone who doesn't fully agree with Putin: breathes
Putin: Wouldn't that make you... an EMBEZZLER?

[mindluge]

Headlines should have read: Alexei Navalny arrested for not dying after being poisoned by Putin.

[ThoughtFission]

I think you missed an important point. When he returned to Russia, his plane was diverted to another airport so the media that was waiting for him, couldn't cover his arrest.

[kybeozactus]

Fun fact: Putin never called Alexei Navalny by name. Only "he", "that blogger", "patient of the Berlin clinic" (in which he was treated for poisoning by "novichok"), etc.

[luke_darga]

My fantasy is that of Presidents Navalny and Zelenskyy shaking hands in peacetime.

[wskylar]

The "Ace" and the "King" comparison was very clever. Great piece everyone!

[skitzbros]

Alexei's health bar must be enormous

Edit: this didn't age well

[ryanchristiansen]

If there was ever a time to re-release this, it's now.

[johnhenrycook]

Shame Alexei is still behind bars.
He's a very hard man to have survived.
Maybe he'll get out soon.

[nuclearrainz]

this literally sounds like the plot of a kind of political action movie

[dividale]

No matter your opinion on Vox gotta admit their animation team kills it every time with the simple but effective presentation style.

[eugenechadwell]

What a brave man Alexei Navalny is; an inspiration to all of us.

[idkwhatnametochoose]

Can we appreciate that when Vox explains they always do it in a unique fashion, in here they use cards, and it’s just amazing.

[AndreyShowChannel]

I live in Russia and I want to thank you for this video. The more publicity around Navalny in the world, the more chances Navalny has to survive in prison. I know English rather poorly, so I translated the text in a translator.