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Jail sentence for Russian opposition leader

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A Moscow court has sent Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny to jail for 20 days for calling for an unsanctioned protest.

This means Navalny will not be able to lead a major rally he had planned in President Vladimir Putin’s hometown of Saint Petersburg on Saturday.

“They have already arrested me for a fully legal demonstration. It must be a sort of gift for Putin’s birthday that is all I can say,” he quipped.

Speaking to the media outside the court building, Navalny’s lawyer Olga Mikhail…
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6 Comments

  1. @pleomond

    April 11, 2024 at 9:05 am

    Don't believe Kremlin trolls. intelligentsia vote Navalny

  2. @genilag4679

    April 11, 2024 at 9:05 am

    cool

  3. @southernjoe1170

    April 11, 2024 at 9:05 am

    I from Ukraine !! I must break you now !!!

  4. @danbanks7930

    April 11, 2024 at 9:05 am

    Ahh the putin purge is at it again…..

  5. @PatKuenig

    April 11, 2024 at 9:05 am

    He was going to Nizhny Novgorod, not to St. Petersburg, great "journalism"

  6. @josedourado3747

    April 11, 2024 at 9:05 am

    This is the Russian Nazi fascist democracy

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