| The police in Moscow arrested the anticorruption crusader and political opposition leader Aleksei A. Navalny on Tuesday for joining an unauthorized, antigovernment rally, just hours after a Moscow court had given him a suspended sentence on criminal fraud charges. |
| The United States State Department issued a warning of possible violence and arrests at the gathering. |
| Earlier, in a surprise twist, the court had spared Mr. Navalny jail time by suspending his sentence of three and a half years but ordered his younger brother, Oleg, who was also charged, to serve a prison term of the same length. |
| The imprisonment of Oleg Navalny, who is generally viewed as a pawn in a larger battle, signaled that the Kremlin was adopting a more sophisticated, if crueler, strategy in seeking to suppress Aleksei Navalny’s political activities: sidelining him, but not making a political martyr of him. |
| “Aren’t you ashamed?” Mr. Navalny cried out in dismay at the judge, Yelena Korobchenko, as she read the verdict. |
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Tuesday, December 30, 2014
Putin Critic Is Arrested at Rally After Suspended Sentence in Fraud Case
Putin Critic Is Arrested at Rally After Suspended Sentence in Fraud Case
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