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I have been covering @navalny since 2011, when he first rose to prominence as a protest leader. Love him or hate him, he doesn't deserve to be lying in a coma. I wish him a speedy recovery.
"I want to live in a normal country, and refuse to accept any talk about Russia being doomed to being a bad, poor or servile country," @navalny told me in 2018. "I want to live here, and I can't tolerate the injustice that for many has become routine." https://www.npr.org/sections/parallels/2018/02/08/584369719/banned-from-election-putin-foe-navalny-pursues-politics-by-other-means
Last December, I visited @navalny's Moscow office after one of his top aides, @shaveddinov, was abducted and conscripted into the Russian army. Half an hour after I left, police raided the office, sawing open the front door. https://www.npr.org/2019/12/26/791560780/russian-anti-government-activist-disappears-only-to-turn-up-at-arctic-military-b
Anti-corruption investigations posted on YouTube are @navalny's trademark. Last year, he linked luxury properties in Montenegro and Spain to Moscow's chief prosecutor. The video has been seen almost 5 million times; the prosecutor still has his job. https://www.npr.org/2019/11/15/778638026/russian-opposition-leader-navalny-links-moscow-prosecutor-to-luxury-properties-a
"The best scenario for the Kremlin would be for @navalny to go into exile," @Stanovaya told me last November. "They're betting that by making life so difficult for him, he will be forced to leave out of the desire to preserve his family and security."
. @navalny figured out the power of the internet faster than Putin did. Without social media, Navalny would never have been able to bypass the Kremlin's monopoly on TV news and launch a nationwide presidential campaign three years ago. https://www.npr.org/sections/parallels/2017/06/01/530322343/banned-from-russian-tv-a-putin-critic-gets-his-message-out-on-youtube
