navalny arrested during 2017 russian protests on 26 march 2017
in 2008, navalny spent around 300,000 rubles on stocks of 5 oil , gas companies: rosneft, gazprom, gazprom neft, lukoil, , surgutneftegaz, becoming activist shareholder. such, began aim @ making financial properties of these companies transparent. required law, there allegations of top managers of these companies involved in thefts , obscuring transparency. other activities deal wrongdoings russian police, such sergei magnitsky s case, improper usage of state s budget funds, quality of state services , on.
in november 2010, navalny published confidential documents transneft s auditing. according navalny s blog, $4 billion stolen transneft s leaders during construction of eastern siberia – pacific ocean oil pipeline.
in december 2010, navalny announced launch of rospil project, seeks bring light corrupt practices in government procurement process. project takes advantage of existing procurement regulation requires government requests tender posted online. information winning bids must posted online well. name rospil pun on slang term raspil (wikt:ru:распил) corruption practice of appropriating money allocated state budget.
in may 2011, navalny launched rosyama (literally russian hole ), project allowed individuals report potholes , track government responses complaints.
in august 2011, navalny publicized papers related scandalous real estate deal between hungarian , russian governments. according papers, hungary sold former embassy building in moscow us$21 million offshore company of viktor vekselberg, resold russian government $111 million. irregularities in paper trail implied collusion. 3 hungarian officials responsible deal detained in february 2011. unclear whether official investigation conducted on russian side.
in may 2012, navalny accused deputy prime minister igor shuvalov of corruption, stating companies owned roman abramovich , alisher usmanov had transferred tens of millions of dollars shuvalov s company, allowing shuvalov share in profit usmanov s purchase of british steel company corus. navalny posted scans of documents blog showing money transfers. usmanov , shuvalov stated documents navalny had posted legitimate, transaction had not represented violation of russian law. shuvalov stated, unswervingly followed rules , principles of conflict of interest. lawyer, sacred .
in july 2012, navalny posted documents on blog allegedly showing alexander bastrykin, head of investigative committee of russia, owned undeclared business in czech republic. posting described financial times navalny s answering shot having had emails leaked during arrest in previous month.
in march 2017, navalny launched campaign not dimon , accusing dmitry medvedev, prime minister, of corruption. authorities either ignored report produced navalny, or commented report issued convicted criminal , not worth commenting on. on march 26, navalny organized series of anti-corruption rallies in different cities across russia. in cities, rallies sanctioned authorities, in others, including moscow , saint petersburg, not allowed. moscow police said 500 people had been detained, according human rights group ovd-info, 1,030 people detained in moscow alone, including navalny himself. in march 27, fined 20,000 rubles minimum organizing illegal protest, , jailed 15 days resisting arrest.
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