The first major trial against Navalny lasted several years and ended with him being sentenced to five years probation for embezzlement. The court found that in 2009, when he was advisor to the governor of the Kirov Region, he allegedly forced a timber company sell wood below market price. Russian opposition leader Alexei Navlny was handed 19 additional years in prison on Friday after being convicted of “extremism.” The trial against the man regarded as Russia’s most famous political prisoner took place behind closed doors in a Moscow courtroom. Navalny, 47, is currently serving time for another conviction that he and many observers view as politically motivated. Do you think that Putin is trying to avoid Western influence in Russia?

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