In 2011 and 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
RosPil Project created by
Alexei Navalny 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 22 October 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 24 May, she withdrew her candidacy. In May 2018, she became a member of the Central Council of Alexei 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 2 September, 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. On 21 December 2020, Sobol went to knock on the door of alleged FSB agent Konstantin Kudryavtsev (who had recently provided details about the
poisoning of Alexei Navalny) but was detained by police for more than six hours. On 25 December 2020, Russian authorities raided Sobol's home, detained her, and opened a criminal investigation, alleging she had made an unlawful threat. Sobol has denied the charges. If convicted, Sobol could face two to five years in prison. On 23 January 2021 during a protest in Moscow opposing the arrest of Navalny, Sobol was grabbed and pulled away from an interview with reporters by multiple police officers. On 3 August 2021, she was convicted of COVID-19 restrictions violations and sentenced to one year and a half of parole-like restrictions. Sobol calls the convictions as politically-motivated and nonsensical. The Russian police put out an arrest warrant for Sobol in October 2021. , 18 February 2024 Sobol released a statement on
Alexei Navalny's death, reported on 16 February 2024, reminding the public that Navalny had been healthy prior to his 2020 poisoning, and that he had recovered his health in Germany prior to his arrest and confinement. She concluded that "we need Putin's regime to come to an end, and we should not be afraid to say this publicly." Shortly after
Navalny's death, Sobol took part in
Pussy Riot protest outside of the Russian Embassy in Berlin, along with
Marina Ovsyannikova and Pussy Riot members
Nadya Tolokonnikova and
Lucy Shtein. In 2026, Sobol was selected to be a participant in the
PACE Platform for Dialogue with Russian Democratic Forces. The platform met in
Strasbourg for its first session in January 2026. == Personal life ==