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Net Impact – One man’s cyber crusade against Russian Corruption
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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Single crusade against the Russian corruption
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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Russia’s chief whistleblower wants to jail the corrupt
Alexey Navalny leaps out of his chair and draws five black circles on a whiteboard. The circles represent players in Russia’s multibillion-dollar oil industry. With boundless energy and lightning speed, he draws lines and connects the dots, telling the story of what he calls classic Russian corruption.
In Russia, this is not done – at least not publicly. Navalny is speaking in a country that has seen its greatest government critics jailed, exiled and killed. But the 34-year-old lawyer, smart, self-confident and apparently fearless, has made a career of going after Russia’s untouchables. As Russia’s chief whistleblower – a one-man WikiLeaks – he has focused in the past three years on using the law to obtain information from the infamously secretive state-run corporations that fuel the country’s economy and line the pockets of its highest officials.
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The Verdict Is In
The re-sentencing of Russia’s No.1 dissident, Mikhail Khodorkovsky, wasn’t unexpected, but the sheer brazenness of it is a striking and dangerous sign of bad things to come. There is one word that comes to mind when watching the drama surrounding the Mikhail Khodorkovsky verdict and sentence today of 13.5 years in prison. Perhaps tellingly, it is a Russian word: naglost’. English simply doesn’t have one word that packs into so few letters all that naglost’ means: arrogance, contemptuous malice, obnoxiousness, brazenness, insolence, impudence, and sheer nerve. Google Translate suggests no fewer than 22 synonyms, none of which captures the fullness of the word as well as the Russian government has embodied it in this case.
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Fighting corruption not priority for Russian leadership
Moscow Times
The gap between Russia’s authorities and citizens has become larger than ever. The country’s kleptocracy has degraded to such a level that criminal gangs and government officials have teamed up to create powerful organized crime syndicates. This was demonstrated in the recent Kushchyovskaya tragedy, but there are hundreds – if not thousands – of Kushchyovskayas across Russia.
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