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BREAKING: Putin Critic, Nalvany Sent To Three Years In Prison

BREAKING: Putin Critic, Nalvany Sent To Three Years In Prison

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Alexei Navalny, the Russian opposition leader, has been condemned to two and a half years in a prison colony.

He was sentenced on charges he violated the terms of his probation while he was recuperating in Germany from nerve-agent poisoning that he blames on the Kremlin – an accusation the Russian authorities deny.

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The judge sided with prosecutors who had demanded the court convert a three and a half year historic suspended sentence into a real jail term.
The prison sentence stems from a 2014 embezzlement conviction that he has rejected as fabricated.

The Kremlin critic was arrested last month after returning from Berlin where he spent five months recovering from the poisoning.

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Hundreds of people were arrested on Tuesday after Mr Navalny’s backers gathered outside the court.

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