INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
A Moscow court has sentenced jailed Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny to nine more years in prison on fresh charges of embezzlement and contempt
Kotova on Tuesday found Navalny guilty in a makeshift court inside the maximum-security prison in Pokrov 100 kilometers (60 miles) east of
Navalny, President Vladimir Putin's main domestic critic, said the Russian president is "afraid of the truth.""Putin is afraid of the truth,
Mikhailova and Vadim Kobzev were briefly detained outside the makeshift court, the independent Novaya Gazeta newspaper reported.State
prosecutors last week requested that the judge sentence Navalny, 45, to an additional 13 years in prison on charges of fraud and contempt of
court.Investigators accuse Navalny of stealing for personal use more than $4.7 million in donations that were given to his political
opposition figure, Navalny was poisoned in August 2020 with a nerve agent while campaigning in Siberia.He was immediately arrested upon his
return to Russia in January 2021 following treatment in Germany and Russian authorities have since sought to extend his jail term, launching
a number of cases against him over the last year.The new case was launched in December 2020.On Friday, President Vladimir Putin promoted
