Moscow lawyer Aleksei N. Navalny runs a website that dishes the dirt on questionable business practices of Russian energy companies. “A 34-year-old real estate lawyer by training, Mr. Navalny can reach as many as a million unique visitors in a day with his digital samizdat, as happened last fall with his scoop about embezzlement at Transneft, a state-run pipeline company. That scheme, presented as a cautionary tale for those tempted to invest in Russian energy stocks, described executives setting up a series of shell companies to pose as contractors for Transneft’s project to build a 3,000-mile pipeline to China.”
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Fighting Russian Corruption, Online
By day, Aleksei N. Navalny is a lawyer in Moscow. By night, he runs a website that exposes corruption in the Russian energy sector. A friend of the people, he is making government enemies.
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April 2026
In this monthly issue, we examine how our understanding of energy — and how we source and use it — is evolving.
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