Lilia Chanysheva
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Lilia Chanysheva (born 1982) is a Russian auditor, opposition politician and former leading associate of opposition leader Alexei Navalny. On 14 June 2023 Chanysheva was sentenced to 7½ years in prison on extremism-related charges.
Career
Chanysheva is a graduate of a leading Russian state financial institute. She worked at international accounting firms PricewaterhouseCoopers and Deloitte in Moscow. She then returned to Ufa in her native Bashkortostan. In 2017, Chanysheva started to run the regional branch of Navalny's Anti-Corruption Foundation in Ufa.
In November 2021, Chanysheva was detained amid a wider crackdown on Navalny's political network. Retroactively, extremism charges were introduced against her. On 14 June 2023 she was sentenced to 7½ years in prison on extremism-related charges. The court also ordered her to pay a fine of 400,000 rubles (approximately $4,760). The trial was classified as secret.