Navalny jailed for 9 years for fraud by Russian court

Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny was convicted of fraud and contempt of court and sentenced to nine years in a maximum security prison on Tuesday. A judge also ruled that Navalny would have to pay a fine of 11,500 US dollars. Navalny is currently serving another prison sentence of 2 1/2 years in a prison colony east of Moscow. Navalny was arrested in January 2021 immediately upon his return from Germany, where he spent five months convalescing from a poisoning he blamed on the Kremlin, a claim Russian officials vehemently denied.