Navalny, Russia’s most prominent voice of opposition, known for exposing corruption and being an ardent critic of President Vladimir Putin, died under mysterious circumstances on 16 February 2024  in a remote Arctic penal colony. In 2021, he was awarded the European Parliament’s Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought.

Alexei Navalny, 2021 Sakharov Prize winner

Views of Moscow - the candidature of opposition leader Alexei Navalny for the Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought 2021 - Smartphone screen displaying the Smart Voting - jailed Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny's app that aims to help Russians to vote out candidates from the ruling United Russia party in the upcoming polls

Views of Moscow - the candidature of opposition leader Alexei Navalny for the Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought 2021 - Office building of the state channel RTRS

Views of Moscow - the candidature of opposition leader Alexei Navalny for the Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought 2021 - Supreme Court of Russia

Views of Moscow - the candidature of opposition leader Alexei Navalny for the Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought 2021 - Moscow's penal detention centre Number 1 (known as Matrosskaya Tishina) where opposition leader Alexei Navalny was held after being jailed for 30 days following his arrest at a Moscow airport upon the arrival from Berlin.

Views of Moscow - the candidature of opposition leader Alexei Navalny for the Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought 2021.Supreme Court of Russia

Views of Moscow - the candidature of opposition leader Alexei Navalny for the Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought 2021.A statue of Themis, an ancient Greek Goddess of Justice and a Russian national state emblem at the entrance of Russia's Supreme Court

Views of Moscow - the candidature of opposition leader Alexei Navalny for the Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought 2021.Russian Ministry of Justice head office building

Views of Moscow - the candidature of opposition leader Alexei Navalny for the Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought 2021.Office of opposition leader Alexei Navalny's Anti-corruption Foundation (FBK)

Views of Moscow - the candidature of opposition leader Alexei Navalny for the Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought 2021 - Office of opposition leader Alexei Navalny's Anti-corruption Foundation (FBK)

Views of Moscow - the candidature of opposition leader Alexei Navalny for the Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought 2021 - Ostankino TV tower

Views of Moscow - the candidature of opposition leader Alexei Navalny for the Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought 2021 - Office of state channel RTRS headquarters

Views of Moscow - the candidature of opposition leader Alexei Navalny for the Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought 2021 - The Kremlin

MEPs have awarded Russian opposition politician and anti-corruption activist Alexei Navalny the European Parliament’s 2021 Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought. This Infoclip illustrates Moscow, Russian government buildings, Douma, memorial place for Boris Nemtsov, the Prison Matrosskaya Tishina where Navalny was detained, headquarters of Russian media, blocked websites in Russia.

Infoclip: Alexei NAVALNY, Sakharov Prize 2021 - Illustration shots of Moscow

On the occasion of his official visit to Russia, Jerzy BUZEK, EP President meets with Boris GRYSLOV, Speaker of the Duma and Sergei MIRONOV, Speaker of the Federation Council, and speaks to the press, in Moscow.

Official visit of Jerzy BUZEK, EP President to Russia: meeting with Boris GRYSLOV, Speaker of the Duma and Sergei MIRONOV, Speaker of the Federation Council, and press conference

On the occasion of his official visit to Russia, Jerzy BUZEK, EP President meets with Dimitry MEDVEDEV, President of the Russian Federation, in Moscow.

Official visit of Jerzy BUZEK, EP President to Russia: meeting with Dimitry MEDVEDEV, President of the Russian Federation

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