Former Anti-Corruption Foundation director says Team Navalny’s leadership has abandoned its core principles

Ivan Zhdanov, the former director of the Anti-Corruption Foundation (FBK) who spent more than 10 years at the organization before being dismissed in the fall of 2025, gave a lengthy interview to Irina Shikhman — his first interview immediately after leaving was given to Meduza. In his conversation with Shikhman, Zhdanov described how he organized the removal of Navalny’s biological samples from Russia to Western laboratories, which later established how the politician was poisoned in his Arctic penal colony. He also spoke about his disagreements with FBK leadership, decisions by the organization he opposed, and Leonid Volkov’s signature on a letter in support of banker Mikhail Fridman. Meduza has selected the key quotes from the interview.

Original source: Meduza