as a warning. russia s government essentially saying that if you investigate russian corruption, you will end up in a penal colony. after his sentencing, navalny was allowed to make a statement to the court. authorities eventually cut off the feed. but let me read you a translation of how he started. quote, i want to use my last words to make an official announcement for those who think that the edge corruption foundation will stop, will finish, will slow down, will fall into decay. no. not only will it not stop. but the anti-corruption foundation will become a will become global. we will establish an international anti-corruption foundation which, of course, we ll still focus on the swindlers and these from the kremlin. over the course of last month, as the international community has levied sanctions against hundreds of russian individuals, many of them are individuals whose abuses have been documented by navalny s anti-corruption foundation for years.
leader of russian opposition movement, alexei navalny, was sentenced to nine years in a maximum security prison on jim deep charges by the russian government. navalny founded organization called the anti-corruption foundation, which put out reports and made videos documenting exactly how corruption in the russian government was lining the pockets of russian oligarchs and vladimir putin himself. russia s charges against navalny were that the anti-corruption foundation was somehow a fraud itself and that navalny was stealing money from it. these charges were widely seen as a warning. russia s government essentially saying that if you investigate russian corruption, you will end up in a penal colony. after his sentencing, navalny was allowed to make a statement to the court. authorities eventually cut off the feed. but let me read you a translation of how he started. quote, i want to use my last words to make an official announcement for those who think that the edge corruption foundation
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