Top Kremlin Critic Brings Out the Stalin in Vladimir Putin
Ahead of Alexei Navalny’s day in court, the opposition leader told Russians, ‘It’s shameful to let yourself be intimidated.’
A Russian opposition politician, Alexei Navalny, will face an additional 19 years imprisonment on charges of extremism that are widely considered to be bogus, underscoring the perils of openly criticizing the Kremlin while Vladimir Putin remains president of Russia.
A Russian court convicted Mr. Navalny, who is already serving a nine-year term on a variety of charges that he says were politically motivated, in a criminal case which he said afterward was designed to make ordinary Russians fear the Kremlin’s authority.
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