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Barred from attending court in person, Navalny was shown by video from a prison colony, but he had no attorney. At one point his sound cut out. Later, the entire video stream was lost.
Jailed Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny appeared at a court hearing without legal representation Tuesday after three of his lawyers were arrested on extremism charges and two others left the country.
Politician Alexei Navalny who has been convicted by Putin's regime wrote an article in which he declared that he hated those "who sold, drank away, squandered Russia's historic chance" in the 90s. Source: Navalny's official website Details: Navalny, who was recently sentenced to another prison term by a court in Russia, wrote a long text in which he shared his impressions of Natan Sharansky's book Fear no evil [Sharansky served nine years in the USSR - ed.