A lawyer by education, Navalny never tired of devising ways to expose the regime. He used shareholder-rights laws to reveal how state-controlled companies misappropriated hundreds of millions of dollars. He crowdsourced investigations into government procurement practices. He garnered millions of views with YouTube videos connecting Putin’s inner circle to a long list of assets, including a Greek spa hotel, luxury yachts and an opulent palace on the Black Sea coast. He turned local elections against the ruling party by exhorting Russians to vote for whichever candidate could defeat it, regardless of qualification or politics.