21 February 2024 | Author/Destination: Editorial / Redaktion | Category: Portrait
Reading Time: 24 minutes
in 2020 © flickr.com – Michal Siergiejevicz/cc-by-2.0
Alexei Anatolyevich Navalny was a Russian
opposition leader, lawyer, anti-corruption activist, and
political prisoner. He organised anti-government demonstrations and ran for office to advocate reforms against
corruption in Russia, and against President
Vladimir Putin and his government. Navalny was a
Russian Opposition Coordination Council member. He was the leader of the
Russia of the Future party and founder of the
Anti-Corruption Foundation (FBK). He was
recognised by
Amnesty International as a
prisoner of conscience, and was awarded the
Sakharov Prize for his work on human rights.
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28 April 2022 | Author/Destination: Editorial / Redaktion | Category: Portrait
Reading Time: 6 minutes
Bust of Cicero, Palazzo Nuovo, Musei Capitolini, Rome © Freud/cc-by-sa-3.0
Marcus Tullius Cicero was a
Roman statesman, lawyer, scholar, philosopher, and
Academic skeptic, who tried to uphold
optimate principles during
the political crises that led to the establishment of the
Roman Empire.
His extensive writings include treatises on
rhetoric, philosophy and politics, and he is considered one of Rome’s greatest
orators and
prose stylists. He came from a wealthy
municipal family of the
Roman equestrian order, and served as
consul in 63 BC.
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