Alexei Navalny's Life, in Photos

Alexei Navalny, opposition politician, anti-corruption activist and foe of President Vladimir Putin, died in an Arctic prison colony on Feb. 16 at age 47.

Navalny, whose supporters say was killed by the Kremlin, leaves behind a legacy of activism and protests that spans over a decade.

Here is a collection of photos from throughout his life and career:

Alexei Navalny at a "DA! - Democratic Alternative" picket against the demolition of Moscow vocational schools for commercial development in 2006.

 

Thousands of people demonstrate on Moscow's Bolotnaya Square on Dec. 10, 2011, against alleged fraud in the State Duma elections.

 

Navalny at a pro-democracy rally in Moscow in 2011.

 

Navalny, his wife Yulia Navalnaya and aide Lyubov Sobol at a rally for fair elections in Moscow in 2012. All along the Garden Ring people stood holding hands, while passing cars greeted them by honking their horns. According to the organizers, there were over 30,000 participants.

 

Navalny speaks at the "For Fair Elections!" rally in St. Petersburg in February 2012.

 

Speaking to voters during the 2013 Moscow mayoral election.

 

Campaigning for Navalny in Moscow before the mayoral election in July 2013.

 

Navalny is taken into custody in the courtroom of the Kirovles case on July 2013.

 

Protests in Moscow against the imprisonment of Navalny in 2013.

 

Navalny and Navalnaya after his release from custody following an appeal by the prosecutor's office on July 2013.

 

A rally in support of defendants in the "Bolotnaya case" in Moscow, February 2014.

 

The Zamoskvoretsky District Court extends Navalny's house arrest for three months, October 2014.

A protest against Navalny's verdict in Moscow, December 2014.

 

Navalny and his brother Oleg in the Zamoskvoretsky District Court, December 2014.

 

A court hearing to consider converting Navalny's suspended sentence to real prison time, May 2015.

 

Navalny in the Moscow City Court, March 2017.

 

Navalny after being attacked with green antiseptic dye in Moscow, April 2017.

 

A rally in Yekaterinburg for Navalny's presidential campaign, September 2017

Navalny at the Central Election Commission session where he was blocked from appearing on the ballot in the upcoming presidential election, December 2017.

 

Navalny's supporters gather to "nominate" him to run against Putin in 2018 presidental elections in St. Petersburg, December 2017.

 

Anti-corruption protests in Chelyabinsk, the symbol of which was a duck, meaning leaked ducky house on Dmitry Medvedev's dacha, March 2017.

 

Strike of presidential elections in Moscow, January 2018.

 

Navalny speaks during a rally to support political prisoners in Moscow, 2019

 

Navalny at a march in memory of opposition politician Boris Nemtsov, who was killed five years earlier, March 2020.

 

On Aug. 20, 2020, Alexei Navalny was poisoned with Novichok, a banned military-grade nerve agent, and evacuated from Siberia to Germany in a coma.[ In his first photo published after he exited the coma, Navalny is seen with his family at the Charite hospital in Berlin.]

 

Navalny returns to Russia from Germany on Jan. 17, 2021.

 

Immediately after his return, Navalny was arrested for breaching his parole conditions while in a coma outside the country.

 

A rally in St. Petersburg calling for Navalny's release, January 2021.

 

Navalny at a court hearing in February 2021.

 

Protests for Free Russia in support of Alexei Navalny and political prisoners in Krasnodar

 

A rally for Navalny's freedom in Moscow.

A replica of Navalny's prison cell in Amseterdam.

 

One of the last photos of Navalny on Jan. 11, 2024, from the Polar Wolf prison colony in the settlement of Kharp.

 

Flowers laid in memory of Navalny on the Solovetsky Stone, a memorial to victims of Soviet political repressions on central Moscow's Lubyanka Ploshchad.

 

Memorial in Moscow.

Memorial in Tbilisi, Georgia.

Russia's opposition says authorities are stepping up a campaign of intimidation against dissenters ahead of a parliamentary vote. Sergei Fadeichev / TASS

Navalny has been on hunger strike since March 31 to demand outside medical assistance.

Navalny's doctors on Saturday said his health had rapidly deteriorated and that he could die "any minute." Sergei Ilnitsky / EPA / TASS

Alexei Navalny appearing at a court hearing via video link from prison. Yuri Kochetkov / EPA / TASS

A photo of Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny at a makeshift memorial as people demonstrate and pay their respect following his death in prison, in front of former Russian consulate in Frankfurt, western Germany on February 16, 2024.