Russian President Vladimir Putin's most prominent opponent, Alexey Navalny, could be sentenced to an additional two decades behind bars on extremism charges.
Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny takes part in a march in memory of slain Russian opposition figure Boris Nemtsov in Moscow, Russia, on Feb. 29, 2020.Russian President Vladimir Putin's most prominent opponent could be sentenced Friday to an additional two decades behind bars on extremism charges.
A Russian judge is set to deliver a verdict in the closed-door trial against Alexey Navalny at a courtroom inside the maximum-security prison camp in Melekhovo, about 145 miles east of Moscow, where the Russian opposition leader is already serving 11 1/2 years. Russian prosecutors have requested a 20-year prison sentence for the latest charges, which stem from Navalny's pro-democracy campaigns against Putin's regime.
If the judge finds Navalny guilty, it will be his fifth criminal conviction. All of the charges have been widely viewed as a politically motivated strategy by the Kremlin to silence its fiercest critic. The 47-year-old lawyer-turned-politician has been in jail since 2021, upon returning to Russia after recovering in Germany from
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