By jailing Alexei Navalny, the Kremlin may turn him into an even more potent opposition symbol
- Written by William Partlett, Associate Professor, University of Melbourne
Russian opposition activist Alexei Navalny was today sentenced to two years, eight months in a prison colony for violating the probation terms of a suspended sentence on a 2014 conviction, which he claims was politically motivated.
This comes on the heels of a second weekend of unauthorised protests in which thousands of Russians took to the...





