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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Mark Trevelyan

Another trial for Russian opposition leader Navalny – one that could keep him in jail for decades

Evgenia Novozhenina/Reuters

He is the man who has been leading opposition to Russia’s President Vladimir Putin for a decade – organising mass protests and seeking to expose corruption by officials.

Alexei Navalny, 47, is now the country’s most prominent prisoner. He is currently serving sentences totalling more than nine years, having been arrested in January 2021 upon his return to Moscow after recuperating in Germany from nerve agent poisoning that he blamed on the Kremlin.

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