A year in the life: Here’s everything that’s happened to Alexey Navalny since he was poisoned in August 2020

Exactly one year ago, Russian opposition politician Alexey Navalny was poisoned with a chemical nerve agent in Siberia. Today, he's sitting in a prison outside Moscow. In a post on Instagram, Navalny marked the first anniversary of his poisoning by thanking everyone who helped him survive the assassination attempt. "I got a second chance at life and made decisions that I believe are correct and honest," he wrote. As always, Navalny found a way to tie in the problem of corruption, arguing that it played a role in saving his life. "Having contaminated Russia's entire state apparatus, they couldn't help but contaminate the intelligence services. And the quality of the covert operations we have is the same as our healthcare, education, and communal services," the Kremlin critic said. Meduza takes a look back on everything that's happened to Alexey Navalny since he was poisoned one year ago today. Original Article: https://meduza.io/en/feature/2021/08/20/a-year-in-the-life