Posts Tagged ‘alexey navalny’

07
April 2011

Net Impact – One man’s cyber crusade against Russian Corruption

The New Yorker

Late on a snowy evening, Alexey Navalny, a lawyer and blogger known for his crusade against the corruption that pervades Russian business and government, sat in a radio studio in Moscow. Tall and blond, Navalny, who is thirty-four years old, cuts a striking figure, and in the past three years he has established himself as a kind of Russian Julian Assange or Lincoln Steffens. On his blog, he has uncovered criminal self-dealing in major Russian oil companies, banks, and government ministries, an activity he calls “poking them with a sharp stick.” Three months ago, he launched another site, RosPil, dedicated to exposing state corruption, where he invites readers to scrutinize public documents for evidence of malfeasance and post their findings. Since the site went up, government contracts worth nearly seven million dollars have been annulled after being found suspect by Navalny and his army. Most remarkably, Navalny has undertaken all this in a country where a number of reporters and lawyers investigating such matters have been beaten or murdered.

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31
March 2011

Single crusade against the Russian corruption

VIKN.eu

The Lawyer and bloger Alexey Navalnyj for last three years has created to itself reputation, so to say, Russian Dzhuliana Assandzha or Linkolna Stefensa, journalist Julia Ioffe tells in the article in magazine The New Yorker. In the blog it opens criminal cases of a personal profit in the large Russian oil companies, banks and the ministries. Three months ago Navalnyj has created site RosPil for corruption exposure in state structures. “Since this site has been started, the state contracts for the sum close to 7 million of dollars after Navalnyj and its army have considered their doubtful have been cancelled. The most remarkable that all is Navalnyj undertakes in the country where some reporters and the lawyers investigating similar cases, have been beaten or killed”, – is told in article.

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