INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
A Moscow court has sentenced jailed Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny to 19 years in prison, Interfax reported Friday, on a string of new
domestic opponent, who is already serving a nine-year prison sentence on fraud charges that he denies, was charged with crimes including the
financing of extremist activity, publicly inciting extremist activities and "rehabilitating Nazi ideology."The Moscow City Court found him
prominent critics now jailed or in exile.In a social media post published Thursday, Navalny, 47, said he expected to be handed a long,
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punishment for his political activism and vowed to continue to work on his behalf from abroad."We have learned to work even in the absence
We have an increasingly developing structure, undertaking more tasks, setting new goals, and making plans for the future," Navalny ally
Dmitry Nizovtsev told The Moscow Times.Yet his allies and experts say Navalny will be even more cut off from the outside world in the
his lawyers, so he would dismantle his team and not appear on international media, and erase his role as Vladimir Putin's opposition,"
said Kirill Martynov, the editor-in-chief of the Latvia-based independent news website Novaya Gazeta Europe."In my view, the current verdict
is largely aimed at achieving this," Martynov told The Moscow Times, referring to the special-regime prison
corruption within the Russian elite and mobilized massive protests across the country.Since being imprisoned in early 2021 he has continued
to speak out against the Kremlin and has opposed its military offensive on Ukraine.Navalny spent his last days before the verdict in a
punishment cell, where he is regularly sent over minor infringements of prison rules, his spokesperson said.In total, he has spent almost
him to share a cell with a sickly inmate and subjected him and other prisoners to "torture by Putin," making them listen to the Russian
opposition groups.To highlight the harsh repressions against the Russian opposition and protest the Kremlin's invasion of Ukraine, his
poisoning that nearly killed him
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