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Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny setenced to prison for 3½ years for violating the terms of his probation while he was recuperating in Germany from nerve-agent poisoning

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https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/russia-navalny-court-1.5897347

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Title
Alexei Navalny sentenced to 3½ years in prison for violating probation | CBC News
Published
Feb 2 2021
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1021 words

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  1. spacecowboy
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    If you are interested in more context of Navalny's sentence I would recommend this article (auto-translated from Russian):...

    If you are interested in more context of Navalny's sentence I would recommend this article (auto-translated from Russian): https://translate.google.com/translate?hl=&sl=auto&tl=en&u=https%3A%2F%2Fnovayagazeta.ru%2Farticles%2F2021%2F02%2F02%2F89013-stati-net-a-chelovek-nashelsya

    An excerpt:

    Today, the Russian Criminal Code no longer contains article 159.4, under which brothers Oleg and Alexei Navalny were convicted.
    The Constitutional Court of Russia found this article of the Criminal Code to be contrary to the Basic Law of Russia. In 2015, this article of the Criminal Code was decriminalized and removed from the criminal case.

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