Russia's most prominent opposition leader Alexei Navalny says that he expects to see his prison sentence extended by nearly two decades on Friday (Aug 4) when a court delivers its verdict on a battery of new charges against him. Who is he and how did he get to this point? OPPOSITION LEADER
In August 2020, Navalny fell ill on a flight from Siberia to Moscow. The pilot made an emergency landing, saving his life, and Navalny was flown to Berlin, where he was treated for the effects of a neurotoxin that lab tests in three countries showed to be Novichok, a poison developed in the Soviet Union.
Navalny himself impersonated a Russian official in a phone call to one of the agents and got him to reveal details of the plot, including that the poison was smeared on his underpants - an episode that formed part of the Oscar-winning film Navalny. At the colony, he has been repeatedly placed for long periods in a tiny cramped punishment cell for trivial misdemeanours such as washing his face at the wrong time.
"One madman has got his claws into Ukraine and I do not know what he wants to do with it - this crazy thief.""Corruption is the foundation of contemporary Russia, it is the foundation of Mr Putin's political power," Navalny told Reuters in an interview in 2011.
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