Alexei Navalny
- Born in 1976 outside Moscow
- Studied law at Moscow's Peoples' Friendship University
- Blogged about Russian politics
- Spearheaded legal challenges on behalf of minority shareholders in Russian giants including Gazprom
- Became a Yale World Fellow in 2010
- Arrested and briefly detained in 2011 following a protest
- Registered in 2013 to run for Moscow mayor
- Convicted of embezzlement and sentenced to five years in prison in July 2013
- Court suspends his prison sentence in October 2013
- Arrested in February 2014 at an unauthorized protest, placed under house arrest