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Navalny's Trade Union
Navalny's Trade Union is a Russian association of trade unions, the creation of which was announced on January 24, 2019 by politician Alexei Navalny to "fight for fair wages." It includes an "Alliance of Doctors", an "Alliance of Teachers", and a trade union by the name of "People of Culture". In September 2021, the chairman of the Alliance of Doctors, Anastasia Vasilyeva, announced that the union was no longer associated with Anti-Corruption Foundation The Anti-Corruption Foundation (ACF or FBK; ; ) is a non-profit organization established in 2011 by the Russian opposition figure Alexei Navalny. The FBK published investigations into alleged corruption by high-ranking Russian government official ... and Navalny's projects. References Trade unions established in 2019 Alexei Navalny National trade union centers of Russia {{Russia-org-stub ...
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Trade Union
A trade union (British English) or labor union (American English), often simply referred to as a union, is an organization of workers whose purpose is to maintain or improve the conditions of their employment, such as attaining better wages and Employee benefits, benefits, improving Work (human activity), working conditions, improving safety standards, establishing complaint procedures, developing rules governing status of employees (rules governing promotions, just-cause conditions for termination) and protecting and increasing the bargaining power of workers. Trade unions typically fund their head office and legal team functions through regularly imposed fees called ''union dues''. The union representatives in the workforce are usually made up of workplace volunteers who are often appointed by members through internal democratic elections. The trade union, through an elected leadership and bargaining committee, bargains with the employer on behalf of its members, known as t ...
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Alexei Navalny
Alexei Anatolyevich Navalny (, ; 4 June 197616 February 2024) was a Russian Opposition to Vladimir Putin in Russia, opposition leader, anti-corruption in Russia, corruption activist and political prisoner. He founded the Anti-Corruption Foundation (FBK) in 2011. He was List of Amnesty International-designated prisoners of conscience, recognised by Amnesty International as a prisoner of conscience and was awarded the Sakharov Prize for his work on human rights. Through his social media accounts, Navalny and his team published material about corruption in Russia, organised political demonstrations and promoted his campaigns. In a 2011 interview, he described Russia's ruling party—United Russia—as a "party of crooks and thieves", which became a popular byname. Navalny and the FBK have published investigations detailing alleged corruption by high-ranking Russian officials and their associates. Navalny twice received a suspended sentence for embezzlement, in 2013 and 2014. Bot ...
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Alliance Of Doctors
The Alliance of Doctors () is a Russian labor union of doctors and physicians. It was founded in 2018. The alliance's stated goal is to protect the rights of medical workers across Russia. The alliance is headed by ophthalmologist Anastasia Vasilyeva, who had treated Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny. It also fights for fair wages and working conditions for medical professionals. Alliance of Doctors was added to the Russian foreign agent law list in March 2021.Russia Adds Alliance Of Doctors To 'Foreign Agent' List
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Алексей Навальный
Alexei Anatolyevich Navalny (, ; 4 June 197616 February 2024) was a Russian Opposition to Vladimir Putin in Russia, opposition leader, anti-corruption in Russia, corruption activist and political prisoner. He founded the Anti-Corruption Foundation (FBK) in 2011. He was List of Amnesty International-designated prisoners of conscience, recognised by Amnesty International as a prisoner of conscience and was awarded the Sakharov Prize for his work on human rights. Through his social media accounts, Navalny and his team published material about corruption in Russia, organised political demonstrations and promoted his campaigns. In a 2011 interview, he described Russia's ruling party—United Russia—as a "party of crooks and thieves", which became a popular byname. Navalny and the FBK have published investigations detailing alleged corruption by high-ranking Russian officials and their associates. Navalny twice received a suspended sentence for embezzlement, in 2013 and 2014. Bot ...
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Anastasia Vasilyeva
Anastasia Yevgenyeva Vasilyeva (; born 12 March 1984) is a Russian ophthalmologist and human rights activist who was the personal doctor to opposition politician Alexei Navalny. Vasilyeva founded the Alliance of Doctors, an independent medical trade union that was originally aligned to Navalny's Anti-Corruption Foundation, before she publicly distanced herself from Navalny and the ACF in 2021. In addition to her political activism, Vasilyeva gained prominence during the COVID-19 pandemic in Russia due to her public criticisms of Vladimir Putin's response. Early life and education Vasilyeva was born in Moscow to an ophthalmologist mother. She studied medicine at the First Moscow State Medical University, graduating in 2006, and completed graduate studies in ophthalmology in 2013. She worked at the Research Institute of Eye Diseases as well as teaching at her alma mater before entering private practice in 2018. Vasilyeva has a son and a daughter and lives in Moscow. Activism ...
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Anti-Corruption Foundation
The Anti-Corruption Foundation (ACF or FBK; ; ) is a non-profit organization established in 2011 by the Russian opposition figure Alexei Navalny. The FBK published investigations into alleged corruption by high-ranking Russian government officials. The organization is funded by private donations. On 9 October 2019, the FBK was declared a "Russian foreign agent law, foreign agent" by the Ministry of Justice (Russia), Russian Ministry of Justice. On 9 June 2021, the FBK was designated as an extremist organization and liquidated by the Moscow City Court. On 11 July 2022, while imprisoned, Navalny announced the relaunch of the FBK as an international organization. Mission FBK Executive Director Vladimir Ashurkov formulated the fund's strategy as pressure on the authorities in order to push them towards internal reforms, working in two directions: organizing situations in which government structures will feel pressure, and creating a real alternative to the current power system. Hi ...
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Trade Unions Established In 2019
Trade involves the transfer of goods and services from one person or entity to another, often in exchange for money. Economists refer to a system or network that allows trade as a market (economics), market. Traders generally negotiate through a medium of credit or exchange, such as money. Though some economists characterize barter (i.e. trading things without the use of money) as an early form of trade, History of money#Emergence of money, money was invented before written history began. Consequently, any story of how money first developed is mostly based on conjecture and logical inference. Letters of credit (finance), credit, paper money, and digital currency, non-physical money have greatly simplified and promoted trade as buying can be separated from selling, or Earnings, earning. Trade between two traders is called bilateral trade, while trade involving more than two traders is called Multilateral treaty, multilateral trade. In one modern view, trade exists due to spe ...
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