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Russian Court Denies Appeal Of Jailed Kremlin Critic Alexei Navalny

The 44-year-old opposition leader was arrested in January after returning from Germany, where he was recovering from a near-fatal poisoning that he and Western governments have blamed on the Kremlin.

A court in Moscow has turned down an appeal by the Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny against his prison sentence, the latest legal defeat for the man who has emerged as the Kremlin's most vocal critic.

Navalny, 44, in January after returning home from Germany, where he had been recovering from a near-fatal poisoning that he and Western governments have blamed

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