US EditionRussian court jails Navalny ally in absentia for 18 years as dissident crackdown continues
- On June 11, 2025, a Moscow military tribunal handed down an 18-year prison sentence to Leonid Volkov, a Russian dissident and close associate of the late opposition figure Alexey Navalny.
- The sentence followed criminal cases opened in 2019 and a 2021 wanted listing amid Russian efforts to silence Navalny's supporters after his death in February 2024.
- Volkov was found guilty on over 40 counts under nine charges including spreading false information about the war in Ukraine, justifying terrorism, and organizing an extremist group.
- The court imposed 18 years in a maximum security prison, a 2 million ruble fine , and banned Volkov from internet use for 10 years.
- The ruling, issued in absentia as Volkov lives in Lithuania since 2019, can be appealed but only takes effect if he is extradited to Russia amid ongoing crackdown on Navalny's network.
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Russia dissident and Navalny ally Leonid Volkov sentenced in absentia to 18 years imprisonment
The Moscow Military Court on Wednesday sentenced in absentia Leonid Volkov, an ally of Alexey Navalny and a former leader of the Anti-Corruption Foundation, to 18 years of imprisonment and a fine of 2 million rubles (approximately $25,000). The charges against him included 18 charges of spreading military “fakes,” 16 charges of justifying terrorism on the internet, 4 charges of financial scams, and 2 charges of vandalism with political motivatio…
A confidant of the late Kremlin critic Alexey Navalny has been sentenced to 18 years in prison in Russia. Leonid Volkov now lives in exile in Lithuania.
Courts in Russia sentenced one opponent in absentia on Wednesday and placed another under house arrest while Moscow continues its repression against the Russian...
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