BUT OF COURSE: Russian opposition leader ‘found guilty’
Russia’s main opposition leader, Alexei Navalny, has been found guilty of embezzlement, local media report.
A judge is still reading the verdict in the city of Kirov, but news agencies said it was clear in his remarks that Mr Navalny had been convicted.
Even a suspended sentence would bar him from running for president next year.
An outspoken critic of President Vladimir Putin, Mr Navalny has denied the accusations, saying the case is politically motivated.
Show trials for political troublemakers (or even those suspected of merely harboring anti-Party leanings) have been a staple of Russian “justice” since the 1930s.