Theatre of the absurd: Exasperated Navalny in court on slander charges as he asks for cucumber recipe

Theatre of the absurd: Exasperated Navalny in court on slander charges as he asks for cucumber recipe
Oliver Carroll
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In the third day of a show trial, a theatre of the absurd, Russian state prosecutors on Tuesday demanded Alexei Navalny be fined 950,000 roubles (£9,500) for allegedly defaming a Second World War veteran.
It is the second case the Kremlin has thrown at their most prominent critic since he recovered from his near-death acquaintance with the nerve agent novichok. Mr Navalny was jailed for nearly three years after returning to Russia earlier this month in a process widely condemned as a corrupt political exercise.

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