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Russian ornithologist sentenced to prison over $27 anticorruption donation

Designated extremist in Russia; prosecution of donors ongoing

Moscow's Gagarinsky District Court sentenced Sofya Rozenfeld, a 50-year-old ornithologist and leading Arctic waterfowl specialist, to three and a half years in a penal colony. Her crime: two donations of 1,000 rubles each, about $27 total, to the Anti-Corruption Foundation (FBK) founded by the late opposition leader Alexei Navalny.

Updated Oct 14

European nations confirm Russia's assassination of Alexei Navalny

Force in Play

As of May 2026: Active, now led by Yulia Navalnaya

Alexei Navalny survived one poisoning attempt with a military-grade nerve agent in August 2020. He did not survive the second. On the two-year anniversary of his death in an Arctic prison, five European nations announced laboratory confirmation that Russian authorities killed him with epibatidine, a toxin from South American poison dart frogs.

Updated May 29