Alexey Navalny, who is rightly called the leader of the Russian opposition, is on trial again.
The new trial has begun in the prison colony where Navalny is currently serving a nine-year sentence. There’s no doubt it will end with an even harsher sentence, perhaps similar to that of Vladimir Kara-Murza, another opposition leader, who received 25 years in prison for ‘treason’ in April, though Navalny says he could receive up to 30 years.
Navalny is accused of seven separate criminal charges, including the setting up of an ‘extremist community’ and its financing, the involvement of minors in criminal activities, and even the rehabilitation of Nazism.
