Russian opposition leader sentenced to 5 years
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Alexei Navalny, one of the Russian opposition's leading figures, has been sentenced to five years in prison.
Navalny was found guilty of embezzlement Thursday in a case that he and his supporters claimed was politically driven to try to shut down the vehement Kremlin critic and intimidate his supporters. Navalny was found guilty of heading a group that embezzled 16 million rubles ($500,000) worth of timber from state-owned company Kirovles in 2009 while he worked as an unpaid adviser to the provincial governor in Kirov, about 760 kilometers (470 miles) east of Moscow. (Reuters)
