Russian state prosecutors have asked a court to sentence jailed opposition politician Alexei Navalny to a further 20 years in a penal colony on various criminal charges including extremism, with a verdict expected on Friday.
Navalny, President Vladimir Putin's fiercest and most vocal domestic opponent, is already serving sentences totalling 11-1/2 years on fraud and other charges, which he says were trumped up to silence him. - Raising funds to finance extremism.
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A Moscow court will deliver its verdict on a slew of new charges against Navalny, a vociferous Putin critic and Russia’s most prominent opposition leader, later today.