Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny, 44, returned home from Germany in January, 2021 where he was receiving treatment after being poisoned with a nerve agent in Siberia in August, 2020. He was immediately taken into custody and given a jail sentence shortly after. The conviction was widely seen as politically motivated, and the European Court of Human Rights stated that Navalny should be freed as his imprisonment posed a risk
My work "Love is stronger than fear" was born as a result of how incredibly moved I was by the courage of Navalny’s wife, Yulia.