Justice and Human Rights United States Project #59903

Help weaken Putin's regime and end the war

by Anti-Corruption Foundation Inc.

Project Report | Oct 14, 2024
ACF summer report

By Diana Rudakova | Team Navalny Fundraising Manager

Yulia Navalnaya met with the President of Sloveni

New ACF website, meetings with European politicians and a shocking investigation: all this and more in the new ACF summer Report.

We’ve launched our new website!
Now you can learn more about our work, read or show someone a brief history of the foundation and get acquainted with the team that works daily to bring Navalny’s Beautiful Russia of the Future closer.

On the website you will find a tab with our projects—there is everything that FBK is currently working on. Our employees are in the Team tab. Not all of them, some we can’t show publicly due to security reasons. History is one of the most important tabs for those who are unfamiliar with the FBK. Read it to learn how Alexei Navalny has fought against Putin all these years.

To mark this launch, we held a big fundraising stream and asked our supporters to be with us on this important day. We've raised over 2 million rubles—thank you! These funds will go towards both new and ongoing projects to help us fight Putin more effectively.

You can set up regular donations in any way that suits you. All the payment options are available via the link. Thank you for your endless support!

Investigations
This month, we released a major investigation uncovering who is behind the attacks on Leonid Volkov and other Navalny supporters. Shockingly, it’s neither the FSB nor the Kremlin. The answer surprised even our own team. All the evidence points to Leonid Nevzlin, an oligarch from the dashing 90s and a former co-owner of Yukos.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7JvLMy4o51M&t=2403s

We’ve told you everything we know about these assassination attempts—who, when, and why—and, most importantly, what drove this revenge against Navalny’s team. We have informed law enforcement agencies in all the countries Nevzlin visits, and we’ll keep pushing to ensure he is held accountable.

The key intermediary between Nevzlin and the perpetrators of these attacks has already been arrested in Poland. Anatoly Blinov was detained for three months after our investigation was released. The case is being handled by the Central Investigation Bureau of Police in Warsaw.

If you have any information about the attack on Leonid Volkov in Lithuania, Ivan Zhdanov in Geneva, or the attack on economist Maxim Mironov and his wife Alexandra Petrachkova in Buenos Aires, please share it with us through one of the anonymous and secure channels below:
Website: blackbox.fbk.info
Email: navalnybox@protonmail.com
Telegram bot: t.me/navalnybox_bot

Navalny's Underground Resistance
Our volunteer numbers continue to grow, and with them, the number of tasks we need to tackle. We regularly release digests of current tasks, and right now, we’re looking for young journalists for our self-published media, hackers, designers, and investigators for our Herz and Black Book projects.

By regularly completing tasks for the Underground Resistance, you can build up your rating and join an exclusive monthly online meeting with one of the ACF key figures and opinion leaders. This month’s meeting was with Leonid Volkov.

The Anti-Corruption Foundation
This month, Yulia Navalnaya gave a speech at the Bled Strategic Forum in Slovenia, urging the EU to create a unified and comprehensive strategy to confront the current Russian regime, as Russia’s future is closely tied to Europe. She also had a separate meeting with Slovenia’s president, Nataša Pirc Musar.

In Finland, Yulia and Vladimir Kara-Murza met with Prime Minister Petteri Orpo, former President Alexander Stubb, and other politicians to discuss ways to cooperate with Russian civil society.

In Canada, Yulia met with Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Foreign Minister Mélanie Joly to discuss support measures for anti-war Russians both inside the country and in exile.

Our legal team continues to work on sanctions lists, help with fines, and defend Russians' rights in the European Court of Human Rights. This month, they also prepared recommendations for improving sanctions legislation as part of research for the Australian parliament.

Much of the legal team's work goes unnoticed, but it’s a crucial part of what we do every day. We always highlight their achievements in our monthly reports, moreover, you can now follow their efforts more closely on the Navalny team’s Telegram channel under the tag #. One such post has already been written by the ACF director and former head of the legal department, Ivan Zhdanov.

Video Production
This month, the Navalny LIVE YouTube channel hit 15 million views. We reported on how the governor of the Kursk region lives lavishly while locals receive compensation of no more than 25,000 rubles, shared the stories of deserters who refused to fight in Putin’s war, and covered a horrific crime in Nizhny Novgorod committed by a participant in the war.

VIDEO: https://youtu.be/u2f9r3yZ-ls?si=wb7M6BY5Ei9wg3U3

The Popular Politics YouTube channel had 52 million views this month. We provided guidance on how to help political prisoners still held in Russian jails, discussed Igor Kiselev, the FSB’s financier and an alcohol oligarch, and covered the attempted hostile takeover of Wildberries.

One of the episodes of Ivan Zhdanov's weekly show, The Most Important, reached its first million views! The show airs every Sunday on its own channel, so tune in to stay informed and help the show reach a million views again.

VIDEO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=17DoaflF0yI&t=1917s

Sirena
In September, posts from our news channel were read more than 25 million times. We reported on how Putin's niece’s son continues to travel freely across Europe despite sanctions, covered the arrest of the organizer behind the attack on Leonid Volkov, and published a guide to avoiding Putin's autumn military draft.

SEPTEMBER FIGURES
Lots of new projects and ideas are currently in progress, and we’ll share them all in our future reports. We have nothing to hide—our work is entirely dependent on your support, and we’re proud of it.

All our work is thanks to your support.

Yulia Navalnaya and Prime Minister of Finland

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Jun 21, 2024
ACF Spring Report

By Diana Rudakova | Team Navalny Fundraising Manager

Concert in memory of Alexei Navalny

Concert in memory of Alexei Navalny
Preparation for the concert in memory of Alexei Navalny, new sanction lists, investigations, and a dozen cases won by our lawyers in the European Court of Human Rights — everything that ACF has been engaged in over the past month is in the new May report.

On June 4th, a concert in memory of Alexei Navalny took place in Berlin. We had been preparing for it for several months to meet with you and spend time together on Alexei's birthday. Once again, we showed that Russia is not Putin and how many people in fact are against him and his regime.

Thank you to everyone who was in the hall and watched the broadcast. We will definitely share more details about the results of the concert in our June report.

Investigations
This month, we released the continuation of our investigation into Putin's palace in Gelendzhik. This time, thanks to a brave cameraman, we walked through the palace with a camera and saw how it has been rebuilt over the past three years. A private chapel, a throne, portraits of military commanders, and coffee tables worth a million rubles each — these are all things we saw not in drawings, but with our own eyes

The Anti-Corruption Foundation
We have sent the "Navalny Lists" to the authorities in the USA, UK, and EU. These lists include 50 individuals who should be prioritized for sanctions because this will inflict real damage on Putin and his regime. You can also help us achieve sanctions against Putin's accomplices. If you live abroad, download the lists and the accompanying letter via this link and send them to your local officials, ministries, and departments.

Additionally, our lawyers have won 32 cases in the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR), mainly concerning detentions during the winter protests of 2021 for Navalny's freedom. They are also working on an algorithm to enforce those ECtHR decisions that the Russian authorities have refused to implement in European countries, ensuring that all victims receive their rightful compensation.

Yulia Navalnaya received the Dresden Peace Prize, which was awarded to Alexei Navalny this year. Yulia continues to meet with world politicians to discuss possible ways to support Russians who oppose Putin and the war. For example, in May, she met with Polish Foreign Minister Radosaw Sikorski.

Video Production
The "Navalny LIVE" channel garnered 21 million views this month. By May 9th, we reported on how Putin betrayed real veterans and replaced them with criminal murderers, we talked about the billionaires in his new government, and the guards who were granted access to the "common trough."

The "Popular Politics" channel received 54 million views in May. Throughout the month, we covered new positions and reshuffles in the government during Putin's fifth term, as well as the arrests of Shoigu's deputies and generals. We discussed the propaganda's reaction to all the changes in the Ministry of Defene and the new minister, Belousov. We hosted a lively debate between Maria Pevchikh and Vladimir Milov following the much-talked-about series "Traitors." It turned out to be very interesting:

On the "Most Important" channel, one of the weekly episodes of Ivan Zhdanov's show garnered over 460,000 views! Be sure to watch the show every Sunday to stay informed about the week's main events.

Sirena
In May, posts from our news Telegram channel were read 30 million times. We released materials about who received positions in the revamped Russian government, reported on Russian military personnel who decided to participate in the United Russia primaries for the upcoming elections, and published an exclusive material about the fire at Putin's countryside house.

Solidarity marathon with political prisoners
On June 12, 2023, our media took the lead in organizing and participating in a solidarity marathon for political prisoners. Major channels came together to raise funds in support of those who have suffered repression under the Putin regime.

Thanks to our collaborative efforts, we managed to raise nearly 40 million rubles. In this post, we'll delve into how these funds were allocated.

The Good Truth Machine
The Good Truth Machine is back! After the elections, we revised our script and questionnaire. Now, our volunteers talk with Russians about how the war has impacted their lives and offer safe ways to resist. Our team has also crafted a separate script for those living in Belgorod who regularly face the reality of Putin's war. Stay updated on the latest news and activities in the latest episode of the diary.

MAY FIGURES
Thank you for standing with us in the fight against Putin. We're constantly brainstorming new ways to effectively challenge his regime, which demands both moral and material resources.
With your support, we'll keep creating impactful projects that everyone will talk about.

Yulia Navalnaya met with Polish Foreign Minister

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Jan 18, 2024
Support "Russia Without Putin" campaign

By Diana Rudakova | Team Navalny Fundraising Manager

The 2024 Russian presidential election will be falsified and Putin will be declared as winner. However, the coming months until March 17 are the time when the whole country of Russia starts to take an interest in politics. This is our chance! That is why we have launched the "Russia Without Putin" campaign at the end of 2023.

Its goal is to persuade as many people as possible to oppose Putin. To show in the elections that the majority of people in Russia do not need Putin, everyone needs a Russia without Putin.

For this purpose, we have launched several projects, which are listed on the website. To our volunteers, we offer:

Personal agitation
To call Russians with the help of The Good Truth Machine — a system for telephone communication, which helps to anonymously reach out to real citizens of our country. Together with volunteers we have developed not only the technical part, but also special scripts for the conversations, and a system for analyzing the results and repeat calls. Personal conversation is the best method of persuasion. You can see examples of calls in our social networks. The system works great, the only thing left is to maintain it, expand it and attract new volunteers. All of this we finance with donations.

Online agitation
Conventional online activism involving the sharing of posts, videos, and images is effective but becomes even more powerful when these materials are distributed on a personal level. In the widely-used Russian messaging platform, Telegram, we introduced a dedicated bot. Users can now receive daily contacts of fellow Russians to personally share anti-Putin content, including prepared images and videos. Through these materials, we aim to expose the wrongdoings of Putin's regime, unveil the reality of life in Russia, and shed light on the war and other atrocities for which Putin and his government bear responsibility. The same materials are also suitable for broader public distribution.

Street agitation
Engaging in any public protest in Russia poses extreme risks now. People face detainment, fines, trials, and imprisonment spanning several years. Hence, we advise our volunteers within the country to adopt more secret approaches. They can put up flyers, and draw graffiti and anti-Putin slogans. Our dedicated team of designers and editors collaborates to produce the most compelling materials, which our courageous supporters then disseminate. To facilitate coordination, we've established a platform for Navalny's underground resistance, where anonymous users receive assignments and communicate securely in chat rooms. Every effort has been made to safeguard the system from Putin's security forces.

The "Russia Without Putin" campaign serves as a powerful unifying force. The majority does not actively support Putin, and we aim to mobilize everyone else. Those opposing war, weary of poverty and despair, and dreaming of a different future for their country. The country without Putin. This is our homeland, and our mission is to liberate it from an oppressive dictator.

Links:

"Russia Without Putin" campaign website

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