Navalny, who is Putin's fiercest domestic critic, is already serving more than 11 years in prison for fraud and other alleged crimes he argues are also bogus
State prosecutors had asked the court to hand him another two decades in a penal colony on six separate criminal charges, including inciting and financing extremist activity and creating an extremist organisation.
It is widely seen as a deliberate, politically-motivated strategy by the Kremlin to silence its most vocal opponent, who exposed official corruption and organised large-scale protests. In a message posted on social media via his lawyers and aides, Mr Navalny said the outcome of the case did not matter as he was alsoHe said:"It's going to be a long sentence. What is called 'Stalinist'."
He said the aim was to frighten Russians, but urged them not to let that happen and to think hard about how best to resist what he called the"villains and thieves in the Kremlin".
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