KIROV: A Russian court on Thursday convicted protest leader Alexei Navalny of embezzlement, in a verdict that will disqualify one of President Vladimir Putin’s fiercest critics from politics and could see him jailed for several years.
Judge Sergei Blinov said he found Navalny guilty of colluding to steal 16 million rubles ($500,000) in a timber deal while acting as an unpaid advisor to the local government in the northern Kirov region.
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