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Russian court hands Navalny ally long prison sentence

Ksenia Fadeyeva distributes campaign leaflets in Tomsk in 2020 [File: Alexander Nemenov/AFP]

A Russian court has handed a nine-and-a-half-year prison sentence to an ally of Kremlin critic Alexey Navalny.

Ksenia Fadeyeva, a lawyer and lawmaker in the Siberian city of Tomsk, was sent to prison for running an “extremist organisation”, her legal team said. She is the latest Russian opposition figure to be detained during the war in Ukraine.

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