MOSCOW (Reuters) - A Russian judge has been asked to jail Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny in absentia for having allegedly broken the terms of a suspended sentence he had been serving and for other infractions, court documents showed on Tuesday. Navalny, one of President Vladimir Putin s leading critics, was airlifted to Germany for treatment in August after collapsing on a plane in what Germany and other Western nations say was an attempt to murder him with a Novichok nerve agent. Russia s Federal Prison Service (FSIN) last month ordered him to immediately fly back from Germany, where he is convalescing, and report at a Moscow office or be jailed if he failed to return in time. It accused him of flouting a suspended sentence he had been serving over a conviction dating from 2014, and of evading the supervision of Russia s criminal inspection authority. Navalny said the original conviction was politically-motivated. On Tuesday, a court database showed authorities had requested that the s
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