Whereas Alexei Navalny (referred to in this preamble as Mr. Navalny ) dedicated himself to building a future of democracy and rule of law for the people of the Russian Federation; Whereas Mr. Navalny worked to expose systemic corruption and abuse at the highest levels of the Kremlin and to call for democratic reforms over the course of his work as an independent journalist, advocate, attorney, and opposition candidate for elected office; Whereas Russian state authorities led by President Vladimir Putin retaliated against Mr. Navalny for his activism, including multiple politically motivated arrests, convictions, and an assassination attempt with the Novichok nerve agent on August 20, 2020; Whereas investigations conducted by Bellingcat, the Insider, Der Spiegel, and multiple governments found that the same unit of the Federal Security Service (FSB) of the Russian Federation responsible for poisoning Mr. Navalny was responsible for poisoning Russian activists Vladimir Kara-Murza, Timur Kuashev, Ruslan Magomedragimov, and Nikita Isayev; Whereas upon his decision to return to the Russian Federation in 2021 after recovering abroad from the FSB assassination attempt, Mr. Navalny was sentenced and imprisoned on politically motivated charges; Whereas Mr. Navalny’s 2021 arrest and imprisonment led to mass demonstrations in support of Mr. Navalny, in which authorities detained an estimated 11,000 protestors; Whereas, on February 17, 2021, the European Court of Human Rights issued a ruling finding that Mr. Navalny’s rights had been violated and demanding his immediate release; Whereas after a meeting with President Putin in June 2021, President Biden vowed that Russia would face devastating consequences if Mr. Navalny were to die in prison; Whereas Mr. Navalny condemned Vladimir Putin’s unprovoked, unjustified, and illegal full-scale invasion of Ukraine launched on February 24, 2022