Amidst Political Vengeance, Aleksei Navalny Faces an Unjust Sentence Russia‘s Crackdown on Dissent and the Plight of Aleksei Navalny On 4 August, the Moscow City Court delivered a stunning blow to Russian opposition leader Aleksei Navalny, sentencing him to 19 years in a penal colony on trumped-up charges of “extremism”. […]