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Alexei Navalny

Russian opposition leader, 1976 to 2024

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Exposed corruption around Vladimir Putin, ran for office and survived a poisoning before returning to Russia, where he was jailed and died in prison in 2024.

Alexei Navalny sits in the right-libertarian part of the Caucus economy and liberty compass: leaning free market and strongly libertarian. The clearest positions are strongly libertarian on liberty and authority, leaning free market on economy and leaning nationalist on nation. The profile is close to the middle on environment and interventionism.

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Where Alexei Navalny sits on ten dimensions

Each scale runs from one pole to the other, and the dot shows the overall tendency of this person's record and public life. These are simplified estimates and open to debate.

💰EconomyLeaning free market
State-ledFree market
⚖️Liberty and authorityStrongly libertarian
LibertarianAuthoritarian
🎭CultureSlightly traditional
ProgressiveTraditional
🌍NationLeaning nationalist
GlobalistNationalist
🌱EnvironmentCentered on environment
Growth-firstNature-first
🤖TechnologyLeaning tech-optimist
Tech-cautiousTech-optimist
🕊️War and peaceSlightly strength-first
Peace-firstStrength-first
🏛️InstitutionsSlightly anti-establishment
Anti-establishmentInstitutional
🙏ReligionSlightly religious
SecularReligious
🛡️InterventionismCentered on interventionism
Non-interventionistInterventionist

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People furthest from Alexei Navalny

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Political views closest to Alexei Navalny

Liberal nationalismHolds that nations have a right to self-government and a shared identity, provided they…95%LocalismPushes power and decisions down to the smallest workable community.95%Civic republicanismValues citizen participation, civic virtue and freedom from domination, and often…95%MinarchismLimits the state to a minimal "night-watchman" role of courts, police and defense.91%

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Percentages show how close two profiles are across all ten dimensions. Including a person here is for study and comparison, not approval. Portrait: Navalny's Team, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons; see all photo credits.