Latest Alexei Navalny Quotes from Interviews

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• I encourage all my colleagues to run for office themselves. But it has become extremely difficult in this system to become a prominent opposition politician. I no longer have any rivals to have a debate with. I need competition. And the people will soon tire of me. They say: Navalny, It's always just Navalny. We want to see someone new.

  Alexei Navalny

  Running, People, Office

  Source: www.spiegel.de

• I am different from Putin, that Russia should not isolate itself. Everything that happens in our country is justified through Syria or Ukraine. But when one's own citizens only make 300 euros, one can't have much clout in foreign policy.

  Alexei Navalny

  Country, Different, Justified

  Source: www.spiegel.de

• We should fulfill the Minsk Protocol. The main reason for the sanctions is that Russia broke a taboo: It triggered a war in Europe. Crimea is a problem, but the most painful part of the sanctions is tied to the war in the Donbas. As soon as Russia takes real steps to prevent shots from being fired there, this part of the sanctions will be lifted.

  Alexei Navalny

  Real, War, Problem

  Source: www.spiegel.de

• Russia should join the international coalition against Islamic State. It is absurd that we are intervening on the side of the Shiites in a war between Sunnis and Shiites even though almost all Russian Muslims are Sunnis. Putin is creating big problems for us in his attempt to help Bashar Assad.

  Alexei Navalny

  War, Islamic, Helping

  Source: www.spiegel.de

• After Trump's election victory, I explained why there would be no friendship between Putin and Trump. The contradictions between the systems are too great. And Putin needs an enemy. He wants to be the leader of the anti-American, anti-European world. And given that he cannot be friends with their heads of state and government, he instead needs to generate scandals and resistance.

  Alexei Navalny

  Leader, Enemy, Victory

  Source: www.spiegel.de

• Maybe Putin wanted to fire Medvedev , but how is he supposed to do that after my film?

  Alexei Navalny

  Film

  Source: www.spiegel.de

• We now live in a country with a thousand political prisoners, a country where each week there are new trials, where people are put in jail because they liked something on the Internet.

  Alexei Navalny

  Country, People, Political

  Source: www.spiegel.de

• Russia spends enormous, senseless amounts of money on the army and the police. We have one of the top rankings in the world when it comes to the number of police officers - but when it comes to the number of murders, we are also right at the top.

  Alexei Navalny

  Army, Police, World

  Source: www.spiegel.de

• Unfortunately, people expect a Russian opposition politician to be a manic libertarian who thinks the oligarchs are great, who isn't interested in the problems of retirees and who believes the invisible hand of the market will resolve everything.

  Alexei Navalny

  Believe, Thinking, People

  Source: www.spiegel.de

• For 17 years, elections in Russia have followed the same pattern: Nobody criticizes Putin, nobody runs a real election campaign, the whole process takes place quietly over a period of two months. The Kremlin blocks every alternative to Putin. He doesn't want a candidate who will travel through the country and speak loudly about Russia's problems.

  Alexei Navalny

  Running, Country, Block

  Source: www.spiegel.de

• No opposition politician has ever taken responsibility for his or her election failures.

  Alexei Navalny

  Taken, Responsibility, Election

  Source: www.spiegel.de

• President Putin will run again in the 2018 election. He wants to be the czar of this new Russian empire that he is rebuilding. I think he is really obsessed with the idea.

  Alexei Navalny

  Running, Thinking, President

  Source: www.spiegel.de

• As far as I know, the people who are against my candidacy now have the upper hand in the Kremlin. They say: Who knows what the election result will be? We already made that mistake once. And they are also afraid of all the things I would say if they let me run.

  Alexei Navalny

  Running, Mistake, People

  Source: www.spiegel.de

• Putin needs to terrorize his own elite. He is more afraid of those in his own surroundings than any protests; there are people there who are at least as critical as I am because they see up close that the system doesn't work. He wants to silence them.

  Alexei Navalny

  People, Silence, Protest

  Source: www.spiegel.de

• People often say that I represent people who earn a lot of money. Of course, a person who is well-educated and affluent is more likely to support me than Vladimir Putin. But that doesn't automatically mean that the others are against me.

  Alexei Navalny

  Mean, People, Support

  Source: www.spiegel.de

• Putin has reversed all the liberalizing reforms carried out by his predecessor.

  Alexei Navalny

  Reform, Putin, Predecessors

• Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev can no longer attend concerts by his favorite group Deep Purple without having to fear that the musicians will wear T-shirts with Pussy Riot written on them.

  Alexei Navalny

  Purple, Pussy, Musician

• I don't know why, but Putin has made a ritual out of humiliating Medvedev. Sometimes I even feel sorry for the prime minister.

  Alexei Navalny

  Sorry, Sometimes, Putin

• Our political leaders often talk about Russia taking an independent path, but they like to live like people in the West.

  Alexei Navalny

  Independent, Russia, People

• I'm concerned with protecting the legal system.

  Alexei Navalny

  Legal System, Concerned

  "Pussy Riot Trial 'Reminds Me of the Inquisition'". Interview with Matthias Schepp, www.spiegel.de. August 20, 2012.

• Politics is traditionally a male domain in Russia.

  Alexei Navalny

  Russia, Males, Domain

  "Pussy Riot Trial 'Reminds Me of the Inquisition'". Interview with Matthias Schepp, www.spiegel.de. August 20, 2012.

• Anyone who commits a xenophobic crime has to be brought to justice.

  Alexei Navalny

  Justice, Crime, Commit

  Source: www.spiegel.de

• Certain people have wanted to put me behind bars for a long time now. That's part of my work. If I were afraid, I couldn't do what I do.

  Alexei Navalny

  Long, People, Bars

  Source: www.spiegel.de

• Stupidity is not a crime.

  Alexei Navalny

  Stupidity, Crime

• Since Russia has the largest number of illegal immigrants, second only to the US, and immigrants from Central Asia bring in drugs, I'm calling for a visa requirement for all those wonderful people from Tajikistan and Uzbekistan.

  Alexei Navalny

  Russia, Uzbekistan, Numbers

  Source: www.spiegel.de