dramatic sentencing of today was not unexpected. we understood that alexey will be in prison until putin is in power the day that he was incarcerated a little bit over a year ago. he is, indeed, frail, but he sends his powerful message from behind the bars and from the court bench, and it's an inspiration for our team and for all russian people. >> vladimir, he was sentenced to nine more years in maximum security prison penal colony for they say stealing from the organization that you actually now run. putin spokesman tells cnn that no one is arc fraid of him and a person is a criminal he should be in prison.