Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Alexei Navalny

Alexei Navalny

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Original – Roman Rubanov, Alexei Navalny and Ivan Zhdanov at a meeting of the Central Election Commission in December 2017

Reason

Politically historic in Russian recent times

Articles in which this image appears

Alexei Navalny, Roman Rubanov and Ivan Zhdanov

FP category for this image

Wikipedia:Featured pictures/People/Political

Creator

Evgenyfeldman

• Support as nominator Thanks user Feldman for this exceptional and dramatic shot! – ArionStar (talk) 04:01, 10 April 2025 (UTC)
• Question What's the historic significance of this shot? It shows three Russian opposition politicians together, but isn't a particularly interesting or well executed photo. Was there some particular significance of the three men being together? - I note that this doesn't appear to be discussed in their articles. Nick-D (talk) 05:38, 12 April 2025 (UTC)

  @Nick-D: The historical context is: the Anti-Corruption Foundation's lead members waiting for the decision over Alexei Navalny, which later made him ineligible for the 2018 Russian presidential election. Navalny was the most powerful Putin opposer. ArionStar (talk) 11:49, 12 April 2025 (UTC)

• Comment They seem so bored. Very awkward portraits in my view. And three people together, to represent "Alexei Navalny" (title of the nomination)? Not even the head image of the article. -- Basile Morin (talk) 03:29, 14 April 2025 (UTC)

  They were key figures during the Alexei Navalny 2018 presidential campaign. Their faces decipt the tension surrounding the commission's decision, which denied the Navalny's candidature. A head image is not a defining requirement. ArionStar (talk) 06:35, 14 April 2025 (UTC)

• Oppose These three people seem so embarrassed by the photographer, especially the one on the right who has a shifty look. -- Basile Morin (talk) 01:03, 15 April 2025 (UTC)

  I don't think so, as Evgeny Feldman was a long-time photographer of Navalny. ArionStar (talk) 03:08, 15 April 2025 (UTC)

Not Promoted --Armbrust ^{The Homunculus} 04:02, 20 April 2025 (UTC)