3 lawyers for the late Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny are jailed

Three lawyers who once represented the late Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny have been jailed in Russia as part of the Kremlin’s crackdown on dissent that has reached levels unseen since Soviet times

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Three Navalny lawyers sentenced to years in Russian penal colony for ‘extremist activity’

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