The West must stand with the Russian people against the murderous Putin regime
The sentencing of Alexei Navalny to three-and-a-half years in prison should act as a wake-up call for democratic nations
3 February 2021 • 2:30pm
An injured protester at a rally after Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny was sentenced to three-and-a-half years in prison
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Surviving a state-sponsored assassination is now a criminal offence in Russia. Alexei Navalny, the political activist and opponent of President Vladimir Putin’s dictatorship who was poisoned on an internal Russian flight, has been sentenced to three-and-a-half years in prison for having the courage to face his attackers by returning to Moscow.
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Biden Must Rally Europe to Stand Up to Putin
The new president is facing his first major foreign policy test: How to react to Moscow s treatment of dissident Alexei Navalny.
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It’s the first foreign-policy test of the Joe Biden presidency. The dissident Alexei Navalny, fresh off of recovering in Germany from an assassination attempt by poison, courageously returned to Russia and was promptly jailed. Protests erupted, and the Kremlin responded with a violent crackdown. Yesterday, a Russian court sentenced Navalny to more than two years in a penal colony. It’s a fraught situation and one which will set the tone for the Biden administration’s Rus
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Russian opposition leader Navalny sentenced to 2.5 years in prison
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Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny stands in a glass cage during a hearing in the Moscow City Court in Moscow on Tuesday. Photo courtesy of the Moscow City Court Press Service
Feb. 2 (UPI) A Russian court on Tuesday sentenced opposition leader Alexei Navalny to two and a half years in prison for violating his parole conditions.
Navalny, who was arrested immediately upon returning to Russia from Germany two weeks ago, lashed out against the verdict in court, calling Russian President Vladimir Putin a little thieving man in his bunker.