Lets stop the length of that sentence, the prosecutors had been pushing for 20 years, we think it is 19 but there has been a little bit of doubt about that. Lets start with the length of that sentence. Yes, the trial was held at a makeshift courtroom at a prison about 850 mild east of moscow in a Village Cold Melekhovo where Alexei Navalny is serving a previous nine year sentence. The trial on Extremism Charges was held Behind Closed Doors and journalists who arrived at that Detention Facility were able to follow proceedings when the judge were able to follow proceedings when thejudge read out the were able to follow proceedings when the judge read out the verdict from a different room via a video link, but the sound quality was so poor that they had difficulty understanding what the actual sentence was. But now the consensus among those journalists seems to be at is 19 years. This is the latest sentence and it may not be Alexei Navalny s last. His defence team says that they have hear
among those journalists seems to be at is 19 years. this is the latest sentence and it may not be alexei navalny s last. his defence team says that they have heard from investigators that alexei navalny may now be charged with terrorism, so what we are seeing now in russia is an environment where any sort of meaningful political activism that challenges vladimir putin s rule is punishable with these lengthy sentences and the 19 sentence that alexei navalnyjust received, it is not really a surprise to anyone and writing on social media yesterday, alexei navalny s team said that they