Russia lengthens sentence for jailed Navalny ally
Lilia Chanysheva, who once headed Navalny's offices in the central Bashkortostan republic, was last year sentenced to seven and a half years in prison on "extremism" charges.
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Lilia Chanysheva looks out from inside a defendants' cage during her verdict hearing at the Kirovsky district court of Ufa on June 14, 2023. (AFP/Kirovsky district court of Ufa press-service)
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MOSCOW - A Russian court on Tuesday increased a prison sentence for a jailed opposition politician and ally of dead Kremlin opponent Alexei Navalny from seven to nine