A Russian court has stopped a presidential bid by Alexei Navalny, the country’s most popular opposition politician, by resurrecting a criminal conviction from 2013.
The decision reflects jitters in the Kremlin as President Vladimir Putin weighs his re-election strategy amid uncertainty about Russia’s international relations, given elections in several European capitals and the incipient relationship with Donald Trump’s US administration.
The Leninsky district court in the city of Kirov yesterday found Mr Navalny guilty of organising a scheme to defraud state company Kirovles of timber worth more than $500,000. He was given a suspended five-year prison sentence.
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