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Alexei Navalny Quotes

1976–2024 Russia

Alexei Anatolievich Navalny (4 June 1976 – 16 February 2024) was a Russian opposition leader, dissident, lawyer, and anti-corruption activist. He came to international prominence by organizing anti-government demonstrations and running for office to advocate reforms against corruption in Russia, and against President Vladimir Putin and his government.

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Also known as: Alexey Navalny

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I firmly believe that all the best things on earth have been created by brave nerds.

Book: Patriot: A Memoir by Alexei Navalny (2024)

The inner compass of Alexei Navalny tells Alexei Navalny where to go. Everything else is uninteresting to me.

Echo of Moscow (2013)

Russian politics over the last decade [has] so inculcated society with cynicism and conspiracy theory that people fundamentally do not believe in simple motives.

Letters Live Reading (2024)

I had this cliché moment of a Russian émigré abroad: I really missed black bread. I know it’s stupid, but I really missed it.

I think very poorly of United Russia. United Russia is the party of corruption, the party of crooks and thieves. And it is the duty of every patriot and citizen of our country to make sure that this party is destroyed.

[F]orgive me if this sounds pompous, but it’s better to die standing up than live on your knees.

For three years, I've been answering the same question. Inmates ask it plainly and directly. Prison administration staff cautiously, with the recorders off. "Why did you come back?"

Letters Live Reading (2024)

We have problems with illegal migration, we have the problem of the Caucasus, we have a problem of ethnic crimes... the fact that our authorities hypocritically pretend that such problems do not exist leads to people discussing them only in the street, at the Russian March.

Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Alexei Navalny (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.