Whereas Alexei Navalny is a well-known anticorruption activist and leader of the political opposition in Russia; Whereas Mr. Navalny garnered 27 percent of the vote in the 2013 Moscow mayoral election; Whereas since that election, Mr. Navalny and his party have been repeatedly denied the opportunity to compete in elections; Whereas Mr. Navalny has been imprisoned multiple times for participating in unsanctioned protests; Whereas Mr. Navalny was attacked twice with a chemical substance in 2017 and potentially poisoned in 2019 while in prison; Whereas over the years a number of Russian journalists, human rights activists, politicians, whistleblowers, and others have been killed or died under mysterious circumstances, in Russia and overseas, including— (1) former Russian spy Alexander Litvinenko (in London) and investigative journalist Anna Politkovskaya in 2006; (2) human rights lawyer Stanislav Markelov, journalist Anastasia Baburova, and human rights activist Natalya Estemirova in 2009; and (3) opposition politician Boris Nemtsov in 2015; Whereas, on August 20, 2020, Mr. Navalny fell ill while on a domestic flight in Russia; Whereas, on August 22, 2020, Mr. Navalny was evacuated by airlift from Omsk, Russia, to Berlin, Germany, for his protection and to ensure he would receive a high standard of health care to improve his chances of recovery; Whereas German chemical weapons experts conducted tests and found unequivocal evidence that Mr. Navalny had been poisoned with a Soviet-era Novichok chemical nerve agent; Whereas specialized laboratories in France and Sweden confirmed that Mr. Navalny was poisoned with a nerve agent from the Novichok group; Whereas the Government of the Russian Federation has repeatedly denied that Mr. Navalny was poisoned; Whereas the Government of the Federal Republic of Germany has called on the Government of the Russian Federation to open an investigation into Mr. Navalny’s case