Alexei Navalny under arrest Alexei Navalny, a Russian political opposition figure whose popularity in the West far exceeded his support in Russia, died while incarcerated in a Russian prison. He was serving a combined 30-and-a-half-year sentence for fraud and political extremism, charges that Navalny and his supporters claim were little more than trumped up accusations
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Vladislav Kanyus, sentenced to 17 years in prison for the brutal murder of his ex-girlfriend, was pardoned after fighting in Ukraine. A slew of such cases has Russian social media in an uproar.
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