CNN CNN Newsroom With Carol Costello December 31, 2014 14:39:00
>> reporter: hi, carol. >> tell us more about why navalny's brother is going to prison and not him. >> reporter: sorry. right. well it's a difficult one. it seems to be a very clever verdict by the judiciary here to try and exercise some control over alexei navalny, but not make hum aim a martyr. this is a character who has emerged as a major political player in terms of the opposition here in russia. he's got kind of a lot of support in cities like moscow and other urban centers as well he's not a direct change to vladimir putin yet but the kremlin wants to make sure he doesn't emerge as such...