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Russia Sends Navalny Associate to Prison for ‘Extremism’
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https://www.nytimes.com/2023/12/29/world/europe/russia-navalny-associate-prison.html
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A court in Siberia on Friday sentenced an ally of the jailed Russian opposition leader Aleksei A. Navalny to nine years in a penal colony for running an “extremist organization,” according to her legal team.
The sentence signals the Kremlin’s willingness to continue cracking down on members of Mr. Navalny’s political group years after it was banned in Russia.
In 2020, the defendant, Ksenia V. Fadeyeva, won a seat in the municipal parliament in the Siberian city of Tomsk, a position she occupied while she was also the coordinator of Mr. Navalny’s political office in the region.
Mr. Navalny, the only politician who was able to pose a significant challenge to the Kremlin over the past decade by creating a robust political organization with officers across the country, is currently serving a 19-year sentence in a remote penal colony in the Russian Arctic.
In June, a court in the city of Ufa sentenced Lilia Chanysheva, the former coordinator of Mr. Navalny’s office in the Russian republic of Bashkortostan, to seven and a half years in prison on extremism charges.
Then in July, Vadim Ostanin, the former coordinator of Mr. Navalny’s office in the Siberian city of Barnaul, was sentenced to nine years in a penal colony, also on charges of extremism.
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