Lyubov Sobol
Lyubov Eduardovna Sobol is a Russian political and public figure, lawyer of the Anti-Corruption Foundation, and a member of the Russian Opposition Coordination Council .Biography
Born on September 13, 1987 in Lobnya, Moscow Oblast, RSFSR. In 2004 she graduated from the gymnasium class of a secondary school with a silver medal. In 2004 she entered the Institute of Jurisprudence of the State Law Academy in Moscow. In parallel with her studies, she worked in the Presnensky District Court of Moscow as secretary of the court session and as an assistant to the judge. In 2006, she entered the Law Faculty of the Moscow State University where she graduated in 2011 with excellency.
In 2011–2012, she took part in various forms of civil-political activities, in opposition rallies, volunteer movement in Astrakhan and assistance to Krymsk, she was an observer at various levels of elections. Since March 2011, she has been a lawyer of the :ru:РосПил|RosPil Project created by Navalny in order to fight corruption in the area of budget spending.
That same year, Forbes Russian language edition awarded Lyubov Sobol seventh place in their 2011 ranking of “faces few know”, recognising the year’s most influential but still relatively unknown personalities. On October 22, 2012, she was elected on the civil list to the Russian Opposition Coordination Council, receiving 25,270 votes on the civil list and taking the fifteenth place, ahead of such famous politicians as Boris Nemtsov and Sergey Udaltsov.
In March 2016, she announced her intention to run for election to the 7th convocation of the State Duma in the fall of 2016 from the majority district in the Central Administrative District of Moscow. On May 24 she withdrew her candidacy.
On May 19, 2018, she became a member of the Central Council of the Aleksei Navalny's political party Russia of the Future.
In 2019, she again took part in the campaign for the election to the Moscow City Duma. On September 2, she was detained by police after a protest on the weekend in Moscow.
She was included in the Leadership category by the BBC on its 2019 list of 100 inspiring and influential women from around the world.
