Starting from 2009, a new opposition figure emerged in Russia, gaining attention for his staunch anti-corruption stance: Alexei Navalny. Here is a brief look at the career of an ambitious man whose reputation as a liberal does not quite match the substance of his ideology.

Since the beginning of April and the publication by the Russian opposition newspaper Novaya Gazeta of an article mentioning dozens of arrests of people for their actual or supposed homosexuality, we are (finally) hearing once again about what is happening in Chechnya.