Authorities in Moscow anticipate major unrest after a city court abruptly sentenced former Russian opposition party leader and outspoken Putin critic Alexei Navalny to three and a half years house arrest after he was found guilty of embezzlement on Tuesday.
More surprisingly, Navalny’s brother Oleg who is a postal worker by trade, was handed a three-and-a-half year sentence in prison and rushed to Buterskiy detention centre, as riot guards assembled in front of the Zamoskverskiy district court in Moscow, where the brothers were being sentenced.
The official charge against the Navalny brothers is that of embezzlement of funds from French cosmetics company …read more
Source: Newsweek
