
A courtroom in Russia has rejected imprisoned opposition chief Alexei Navalny’s second attraction of a nine-year sentence.
The 46-year-old dissident is serving the sentence, handed to him in March on expenses of fraud and contempt of courtroom, in a high-security jail.
Mr Navalny, Russian President Vladimir Putin’s fiercest foe, was arrested in January 2021 after getting back from Germany, the place he