Lyubov Eduardovna Sobol

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Lyubov Sobol (2019)

Lyubow Eduardowna Sobol (single name Lyubow Fedenjowa ; born September 13, 1987 ) is a Russian lawyer and politician. She works for Alexei Navalny's Anti-Corruption Fund (FBK) and is a member of the unregistered Russia of the Future Party ; She was also a member of the Coordination Council of the Russian opposition from 2012 to 2013.

Life

Lyubov Sobol studied law at the Moscow State Legal Academy (MGJUA). During her studies, she worked at a district court in Moscow as a court clerk and assistant. In 2006 she began studying at the Law Faculty of Lomonosov University in Moscow , which she graduated with honors in 2011. In 2011 she joined Alexei Navalny’s RosPil project as an associate and lawyer, the aim of which was the targeted use of state funds and the fight against corruption in state contracts. From 2011 to 2012 she took part in numerous civil society activities and protests, such as the anti- Seliger meetings, based on the Seliger meetings serving state propaganda , in demonstrations by the opposition, including in Astrakhan , and took part in relief operations after the flood disaster in Krymsk and as an election observer. In 2011, Forbes magazine (Russia) voted her seventh place among the heroes of the year that hardly anyone knows.

In 2012, Sobol founded the People's Alliance together with other anti-corruption fund employees such as Georgi Alburow, Vladimir Ashurkov, Leonid Volkov and the political scientist Fyodor Kraschennikow , which, however, was not registered by the state. Since another party with the same name had meanwhile been registered, it changed its name to Progressive Party in 2014 ; when that name was also occupied, she chose the name Russia of the Future .

In October 2012, Sobol was elected to the Coordinating Council of the Russian opposition with the fifteenth best result, ahead of politicians like Boris Nemtsov and Sergei Udalzow . In 2014 she was not admitted to the Moscow City Duma elections . In 2016, the two state-approved opposition parties Parnas and Yabloko did not guarantee her a place on the list for election to the State Duma .

In 2017 Sobol worked as a newscaster for the program “Kaktus” on the Youtube channel “Navalny Live”, whose producer she became in August 2018 after she had left her job at RosPil .

In 2019, Sobol wanted to run again for the Moscow City Duma, where she would have run in the same constituency as the politician Sergei Mitrochin and the palliative medicine activist Njuta Federmesser. Registration for the election was denied, which led to protests in Moscow . Sobol went on a hunger strike and was temporarily arrested after a protest march. The signatures required for a candidacy had - as in similar cases by other opposition politicians - been invalidated by systematic forgers through too high a proportion of forged signatures. The traces of the forgers led to the environment of “Putin's cook”, Yevgeny Prigozhin .

At a rally on August 3, 2019 in Moscow, according to the civil rights portal OWD-Info, 685 people were in police custody by the afternoon of that day, including several accredited journalists and Sobol. The election of the Moscow City Duma was scheduled for the beginning of September 2019.

Sobol is married to a sociologist and lecturer at the Higher School of Economics (HSE) in Moscow and has one daughter. Her husband was attacked in 2016 for her civil society activity and stabbed in the basin with a syringe of unknown content. According to research by Novaya Gazeta , the attack was carried out by Oleg Simonov, who is associated with Yevgeny Prigozhin's business structures; the attack is said to have deterred Lyubov Sobol from further research in the Prigozhin area.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ "Do not disturb the citizens' passage to the elections" , Novaya Gazeta , July 14, 2019.
  2. ↑ Who and how thwarted the Moscow City Duma elections? , Novaya Gazeta, December 16, 2019
  3. ↑ FAZ.net August 3, 2019: Russian police arrest almost 700 demonstrators
  4. ↑ FAZ.net August 4, 2019: Flawless police state ( comment )
  5. ↑ https://www.hse.ru/staff/mohov_sergei (Link dead on August 4, 2019 )
  6. ↑ www.novayagazeta.ru (October 22, 2018)
personal data
SURNAME Sobol, Lyubov Eduardovna
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Соболь, Любовь Эдуардовна (Russian spelling)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Russian lawyer and politician
DATE OF BIRTH September 13, 1987