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Russian opposition leader Alexey Navalny lost his appeal against a new 9-year prison sentence and will be transferred to a high-security prison in a move that his supporters say is aimed at isolating President Vladimir Putin’s top critic even further.
Navalny, 45, who was already serving a 2 1/2 year-sentence that the European Court of Human Rights called politically motivated, was convicted in March of fraud and contempt of court. He was due to have been set free next year.
The Kremlin foe assailed the war in Ukraine in a video-link from behind prison bars with the Moscow appeal court and said Putin’s regime will “burn in hell.†Navalny is currently being held in a jail about 100 kilometres (60 miles) from the Russian capital.