Kudos to the Guardian for its lengthy interview with graft-fighting lawyer Alexei Navalny, who has made it his solo mission to uncover corruption within some of Russia’s largest companies, an objective with redoubtable consequences.  The indefatigable blogger has taken on the likes of tycoon Viktor Vekselberg, energy industry giants Transneft and Rosneft, and bank VTB.  Navalny discusses, in this excerpt, his ambitious new endeavor – RosPil:

Navalny’s latest project is RosPil, a website that uses hundreds of volunteers to comb through public documents on state tenders, a prime area of state corruption. He came up with the idea in October, after his exposure of a corrupt government tender led to its cancellation and the resignation of the state official charged with overseeing it. Just two weeks after launching the site, Navalny collected 4 million roubles (£84,000), a record sum in Russia.