Already sentenced to nine years in prison in complicated conditions, the number one opponent in the Kremlin, Alexeï Navalny, awaits his new conviction on Friday, this time for “extremism”, a crime for which the prosecution has required twenty years.
A longtime opponent of the Russian president, Alexei Navalny saw justice hounded against him before the conflict in Ukraine, but his fate has worsened since.
He was imprisoned on his return to Russia, at the beginning of 2021, after surviving in extremis a poisoning which he attributes to the Russian security services acting on the orders of the master of the Kremlin, then he was sentenced twice.
Alexei Navalny said Thursday to expect a “long, Stalinist sentence”. “The formula for calculating it is simple: what the prosecutor asked for, minus 10-15%. They asked for 20 years, they will give 18 or something,” he said in an internet message from his relatives.