* Russian regime critic and blogger (44) with millions of followers on Twitter and YouTube. Trained lawyer.
* Lives in Moscow, is married and has two children.
* Started an anti-corruption campaign in 2007 by buying into state-controlled companies in order to ask critical questions at general meetings.
* Has organized a series of demonstrations against President Vladimir Putin.
* In 2008 excluded from the liberal party Jabloko, where he had been active since 2000, accused of harming the party with its nationalist tendencies.
* Leader of the small Partija Progressa – the Progress Party – since its establishment in 2013.
* Received 27 percent of the vote in the Moscow mayoral election in September 2013.
* Has been arrested and brought before the court for embezzlement a number of times. Sentenced to probation in July 2013 and December 2014. He himself claims that these have been politically motivated.
* Wanted to run as a presidential candidate and challenge Putin in the 2018 election, but the candidacy was not approved.
* In May 2018, he was sentenced to 30 days in prison after being arrested during a demonstration against Putin in Moscow.
* Nominated for the Sakharov Prize in 2019.
(Source: NTB, Store norske leksikon, Wikipedia)
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