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Director's statement on Alexey Navalny

The following is a statement from Emma Sky, director of the International Leadership Center. The entire Yale World Fellows family is heartbroken by reports that Alexey Navalny, courageous Russian opposition leader and anti-corruption dissident, has died. Alexey was a Yale World Fellow from the class of 2010, who embodied the ideals of the open society and dedicated his life to the pursuit of a better Russia. After being poisoned by the state, he bravely returned to Russia, only to face immediate arrest. He defied a dictatorship, and paid for it with his life. We will remember his unflagging courage and his selfless sacrifice—and also his mischievous grin, his sense of…

Director's Statement on Alexey Navalny

February 16, 2024 The entire Yale World Fellows family is heartbroken by reports that Alexey Navalny, courageous Russian opposition leader and anti-corruption dissident, has died. Alexey was a Yale World Fellow from the class of 2010, who embodied the ideals of the open society and dedicated his life to the pursuit of a better Russia. After being poisoned by the state, he bravely returned to Russia, only to face immediate arrest. He defied a dictatorship, and paid for it with his life. We will remember his unflagging courage and his selfless sacrifice—and also his mischievous grin, his sense of humor, and his devotion to his family.  Alexey was a larger-than-life…

Alexey Navalny

Alexey Navalny is the leader of Russian opposition and the founder of the Anti-Corruption Foundation. He has become well-known for his anti-corruption investigations against Russian state corporations and senior officials. Alexey participated in Russian presidential election in 2018, and in the course of the campaign he opened 81 regional headquarters all over the country. 41 of them are currently in operation, which makes his network the biggest opposition organization in Russia. In August 2020 Alexey was attacked with a Novichok nerve agent by Russian operatives and later sentenced to 9 years in a maximum security penal colony on charges of fraud and contempt of court. Due to fabrications of criminal cases,…

Yale World Fellows express solidarity with Alexey Navalny

Yale World Fellows express solidarity with Alexey Navalny, a 2010 Yale World Fellow, and call on the Russian authorities to support an independent investigation into the attack. More than 150 Fellows from around the globe have signed on to the statement to show their solidarity.  See the full statement here

Yale World Fellows Statement on Alexey Navalny

August 23, 2020 We are members of the Yale World Fellows family. We are shocked, saddened and angered at the apparent attack on Alexey Navalny, a 2010 Yale World Fellow. We are thankful that Alexey is now in Germany, receiving the specialized care he needs, and hope he makes a full recovery. We admire Alexey for his courage to speak out against corruption; his persistent campaign for human rights; and his belief in the future of Russia. We call on the Russian Government to allow and support an independent, transparent and credible investigation to bring the perpetrators of this horrific crime to justice. In every society, all citizens – including…

Anna Biryukova

Anna Biryukova is Head of Public Opinion Research at the Anti-Corruption Foundation (ACF), Russia’s most significant opposition organization, founded by Alexey Navalny. Anna joined the team of the Russian opposition leader Alexey Navalny in 2013 during Navalny’s election campaign for Mayor of Moscow. Since then, Anna has run independent and unbiased surveys, nationwide polls and focus groups, always under immense pressure from Putin’s regime. In 2019 she was forced to leave her home country. Russian authorities considered her work — political polling — to be a terrorist and extremist activity. Living in exile in Lithuania, Anna has never stopped doing her research work. As ACF’s head of polling, she manages…

Remembering Alexey

The Yale World Fellows family and the entire Yale community are heartbroken by the death of Alexey Navalny, courageous Russian opposition leader and anti-corruption dissident.

Leonid Volkov

Leonid Volkov is a Russian politician of the Russia’s Future Party. Leonid was campaign manager and chief of staff for Alexei Navalny’s 2013 mayoral campaign for Moscow, as well as Alexei Navalny’s attempt to get registered for the 2018 presidential election. Currently, Leonid oversees all regional political operations of the Russia’s Future Party over Russia’s 11 time zones. He is a former deputy of the Yekaterinburg City Duma and the head of the central election committee of the Russian Opposition Coordination Council. Leonid has over 20 years of experience as an IT professional, running and consulting several of Russia’s largest software firms. Together with Fyodor Krasheninnikov he published three editions…

World Fellows Program celebrates 20th anniversary

The Maurice R. Greenberg World Fellows Program celebrated its twentieth anniversary on October 14–16, 2022. Nearly 200 World Fellows, from as far away as Australia, China, Nigeria, and Argentina, returned to New Haven to take part in a weekend of discussions on the state of the world, how to address the challenges of our times, and the strengthening of networks across cohorts, countries, and sectors. Emma Sky, Program Director (and Director of Yale’s International Leadership Center), recalled that the first generation of World Fellows came of age at the end of the Cold War. “It was such a hopeful time. Democracy was on the march…There was optimism that intractable conflicts could…