Daniel Kholodny
Russian political prisoner
About Daniel Kholodny
Born 1997.
Daniel Kholodny was the technical director of Alexei Navalny's YouTube channel Navalny Live and is now a prisoner in Russia.
Kholodny became involved in Navalny's Anti-Corruption Foundation while studying in college. Eventually he became the technical director of the foundation's YouTube channel and was responsible for organising live broadcasts and filming videos about the foundation's investigations. According to his friends he was not involved in the organisation's finances.
Kholodny left the Anti-Corruption Foundation after the repression against it intensified and focused on his work at a small IT company which he founded while being a student. In August 2023 Kholodny was found guilty of founding an extremist organisation and sentenced to 9 years in prison.
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Russian political prisoner
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Daniel Kholodny was born in 1997.
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