A court in Moscow has found Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny guilty of defamation. Earlier today another court rejected Navalny's appeal against a jail sentence in A separate case. But it did reduce his sentence slightly, taking into account time already served under house arrest. Navalny now must spend around two and a half years behind bars for violating parole. The Kremlin critic was unable to meet his parole officers because he was in a German hospital receiving life-saving treatment after being poisoned with the military-grade nerve agent Novichok.

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