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CNN —Jailed opposition leader Alexey Navalny appeared before a Russian court Monday to defend himself against fresh charges of extremism, in a trial that could extend his prison term by decades. In comments posted to his Twitter account, Navalny said the “absurd” charges could lead to him serving a further 30 years behind bars. Navalny’s team challenged judge Andrey Suvorov, and asked him to recuse himself, according to the team’s Telegram posts. Also present at the hearing is Daniel Kholodny, the former technical director of the Navalny Live YouTube channel, accused in the same extremism case. Putin himself said in December 2020 that if Russian security services had wanted to kill Navalny, they “would have finished” the job.
Persons: CNN —, Alexey Navalny, Vladimir Putin, Navalny, Navalny’s, Vadim Kobzev, Olga Mikhailova, Svetlana Davyodva, Andrey Suvorov, Vladimir, , Daniel Kholodny, Evgenia Novozhenina, Lilia Chanysheva, Chanysheva, , Novichok, Putin Organizations: CNN, TASS, IK, Journalists, Russian Security Service Locations: Melekhovo, Moscow, Russian, Ufa, Russia, Germany, Soviet, Berlin, Siberian, Omsk, Siberia
MOSCOW, June 14 (Reuters) - A former campaign leader for jailed Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny was sentenced to seven years and six months in prison on Wednesday for "creating an extremist organisation", rights group OVD-Info said. Navalny supporters reacted with outrage to the sentence against Liliya Chanysheva, the former campaign chief for Navalny in the Urals city of Ufa. Navalny aide Lyubov Sobol called it a political verdict, saying President Vladimir Putin had "put one more hostage in a penal colony". Human rights groups and Western governments view Navalny as a political prisoner. Reporting by Reuters, Writing by Mark Trevelyan; editing by Guy FaulconbridgeOur Standards: The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles.
Persons: Alexei Navalny, Navalny, Liliya Chanysheva, Lyubov Sobol, Vladimir Putin, Putin's, Mark Trevelyan, Guy Faulconbridge Organizations: Navalny, Kremlin, Reuters, Thomson Locations: MOSCOW, Ufa, Navalny
The Russian agency tasked with monitoring the internet was obsessed with dissident Alexey Navalny. The New York Times analyzed a trove of leaked Roskomnadzor records in a Thursday report. The Roskomnadzor records, though representative of only one of Russia's 85 regions, make clear that the authorities think Navalny remains a threat. Any articles, social media comments, or even websites where his name simply appeared in marginal links, were flagged by the agency, according to The Times. Roskomnadzor in conjunction with other facets of Russia's surveillance state also targeted anyone who supported Navalny, records show.
Starting in 2012, the year Mr. Putin retook the presidency, Roskomnadzor built a blacklist of websites that the companies were required to block. In 2021, authorities throttled access to the social media service to a crawl. It gathered information about government critics and identified shifting political opinions on social media. watch opponents and identify new threats to Mr. Putin, Mr. Voronin said. In the records, censors flagged ProUfu.ru for the critical Ukraine editorial written about Mr. Putin in February.
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