EU agrees to impose sanctions on Russia for jailing Alexei Navalny
The EU also agreed on sanctions for Myanmar over the military’s seizure of power.
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Navalny will be imprisoned for just over 2 and a half years in a prison colony.
Alexei Navalny was arrested and jailed upon returning to Russia last month.
In his closing arguments, Navalny said that “every moment of this case is obvious legal nonsense”.
During a theatrical trial today, the opposition figure sparred with the judge and prosecutor and mocked the veteran’s grandson.
What next for Russia following the jailing of the anti-corruption opposition leader?
Britain, France, Germany, the United States and the European Union denounced the ruling and called for his immediate release.
Navalny’s team said there was ‘overwhelming nationwide support’ for the Kremlin’s fiercest critic.
Protesters defied government warnings to rally from Vladivostok to Saint Petersburg in a second weekend of mass demonstrations.
Tens of thousands rallied in support of jailed opposition politician Alexei Navalny in Russia this weekend.
Thousands of protesters joined in cities today to support the jailed Kremlin critic.
Navalny was arrested after returning from Germany following treatment for nerve agent poisoning.
Navalny was detained on arrival in Russia after recovering from nerve agent poisoning in Germany.
Western governments say Alexei Navalny was poisoned with the Soviet-era Novichok nerve agent
It’s widely suggested that Russia was behind Navalny’s poisoning in August.
The decision was agreed upon among the 27 EU envoys to Brussels.
Moscow quickly hit back that the accusations were “unacceptable” and amounted to “blackmail”.
The Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons carried out its own analysis of samples taken from the Russian opposition figure.
The Charite hospital that treated Navalny said it was still too early to assess any long-term effects of his poisoning.
Alexei Navalny was kept in an induced coma for more than a week as he was treated with an antidote.
The vote is seen as a key test of the Kremlin’s control of local politics.
Chemical weapons experts have said Alexei Navalny was poisoned with a nerve agent.
Alexei Navalny fell ill on a flight to Moscow and is now in an induced coma in a Berlin hospital.
Alexei Navalny last month became the latest in a long line of Russian defectors to be poisoned in suspicious circumstances.
Chancellor Angela Merkel gave a statement earlier to confirm that Navalny had been poisoned with Novichok.
Alexei Navalny’s allies insist he was deliberately poisoned and say the Kremlin was behind it.
The West has pushed for an investigation into the sudden illness of the Kremlin’s fiercest critic.
Doctors at the Berlin hospital where Navalny is being treated have said there is a possibility of long-term effects to his central nervous system.
Alexei Navalny will be treated by specialists at the German capital’s main hospital.
His family and supporters believe he was poisoned.
Alexei Navalny is in a “serious condition” according to his spokesperson.
Alexei Navalny is serving a 30-day sentence for calling a mass protest in Moscow.
Earlier, police raided the Moscow office of Navalny as the demonstrations calling for a boycott of Russia’s presidential election took place.
Vladimir Putin, who has been in power for 18 years and is expected to easily win another six-year term.
But 41 year old lawyer Alexei Navalny has been deemed ineligible to run in the Russian election due to a criminal conviction.
Russian authorities detained the 41-year-old opposition leader and nearly 1,000 of his supporters.
Alexei Navalny has been a vocal critic of the Kremlin.
Alexei Navalny was today convicted of embezzlement and given a five-year suspended sentence.
Alexi Navalny, a leading critic of the Russian President, has also been arrested.
Mayor Sergei Sobyanin just crept over the finish line to win 51.3 per cent of votes in yesterday’s poll.