Leonid Volkov is chief of staff to imprisoned opposition leader Alexei Navalny. He was campaign manager for Navalny’s Moscow mayoral campaign in 2013, as well as for his bid to get onto the presidential ballot in 2018. Between 2017 and 2021 Volkov created and led Team Navalny’s network of regional offices in 45 of Russia’s largest cities. Since 2019 Leonid Volkov operates from abroad; there are seven politically motivated criminal cases brought against him in Russia.