Russia: Moscow court jails opposition politician Alexei Navalny

Moscow’s Simonovsky District Court on Tuesday ruled to revoke opposition activist Alexei Navalny’s probation in connection with the ’Yves Rocher’ case and replace it with a custodial sentence. Navalny was sentenced to three and a half years in a standard regime penal colony. The court, however, gave Navalny a two-year and eight-month sentence considering his house arrest during the 2014 ’Yves Rocher’ investigation and detention from 17 January 2021 until the date the ruling came into force. The opposition