Ruslan Shaveddinov
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22 July 1995
Ruslan Shaveddinov | |
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Руслан Шаведдинов | |
 Shaveddinov in 2018 | |
| Born | Ruslan Tabrizovich Shaveddinov 22 July 1995 Liski, Voronezh Oblast, Russia |
| Education | International Independent Ecological and Political University (human rights) |
| Occupations | Political activist, journalist, project manager of the Anti-Corruption Foundation, YouTuber |
Political party | Russia of the Future |
Ruslan Tabrizovich Shaveddinov (Russian: Русла́н Табри́зович Шаведди́нов, born 22 July 1995[1]) is a Russian political activist, investigative journalist, and YouTube-blogger. He is best known as a project manager of Alexei Navalny's Anti-Corruption Foundation (FBK) and press secretary of Navalny's presidential campaign in 2018.[2][3]
Ruslan Shaveddinov was born on 22 July 1995 in Liski, Voronezh Oblast. He graduated from the International Independent Ecological and Political University with a specialization in human rights.[4]
In 2013 Shaveddinov joined Alexei Navalny's mayoral campaign as a volunteer and later joined the staff of Navalny's Anti-Corruption Foundation. At the same time, he participated in protests in support of the Pussy riot feminist art group, whose main participants had been imprisoned a year before for hooliganism motivated by religious hatred.[5][6]
In 2014 with colleagues from the Anti-Corruption Foundation, Shaveddinov investigated Vyacheslav Volodin's and Sergey Neverov's dachas. During the filming, he was beaten up by private security guards and held in content by police.[7]
In December 2016 Navalny announced his candidacy in the 2018 Russian presidential elections and appointed Shaveddinov his press secretary for the campaign.[8] In addition to the press-secretary duties, from 2017 to 2018, the latter hosted the political news show "Cactus" on the YouTube-channel "Navalny Live".[9][10][11]
In May 2018 Shaveddinov was elected to the central council of the Russia of the Future political party. The central council also included Ivan Zhdanov, Roman Rubanov, Georgy Alburov, Lyubov Sobol, and others.[12]
Upon participating in Moscow City Duma election protests,[13] in November 2019, Shaveddinov was included in the so-called "blacklist", banning him from entering the building of the Moscow City Duma.[14] A month later, he was forcibly taken to serve at a military base in Novaya Zemlya.[15]
As of 2022 Shaveddinov is one of the hosts of the "Popular Politics" YouTube-channel.[16]
Investigations
In January 2019 Shaveddinov published an investigation on the corruption of Russian Olympic champions Alexei Nemov and Svetlana Khorkina.[17] Later the same year, he released a YouTube video about Deputy Mayor of Moscow Natalia Sergunina's undeclared financial assets that he had previously been working on with Georgy Alburov and Kira Yarmysh. As of February 2020, the video had over 3 million views on YouTube.[18][19]
A month before the 2021 State Duma elections Shaveddinov published an investigation about the Deputy Defence Minister Andrey Kartapolov.[20] Navalny's associates, Ruslan Shaveddinov, Artem Ionov, and Ivan Konovalov, stated that it was Kartapolov who coordinated their abduction by the army.[21] Later the same year, Shaveddinov published another investigation about the mistresses of Russian officials, working close to President Vladimir Putin.[22]
