Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny faces trial again on Friday to hear whether he has been found guilty of a series of extremism charges that could see him spend 20 more years behind bars. ECRNewsWatch Russia
He is already serving a nine-year sentence in a maximum-security prison for"embezzlement", a charge that his supporters say was trumped up in retaliation for challenging President Vladimir Putin.
Navalny has a huge following on social media, where he has posted videos exposing alleged corruption among Russia's elite and mobilised massive anti-government protests. His Anti-Corruption Foundation, that investigates graft among Russian officials, was banned for extremism in 2021. He was arrested in 2021 after arriving in Moscow from Germany, where he had been recovering from a poisoning attack he blames on the Kremlin.
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