M100 Board Member Christian Rainer on the M100 Media Award for Alexei Navalny

“For the first time since the collapse of the Soviet Union, the world seems to be at a crossroads between the powers of democracy and autocracy, with Russia, China and many others on one side and Europe as well as the US on the other. ALEXEJ NAVALNY is standing up to the despots and the cynics with selfless and even self-destructive strength. He is fighting for values that over hundreds of years we have wrested from the millennia-old system. May he reach his goals unscathed!”