A court in Moscow hearing a libel trial involving activist Alexey Navalny has been adjourned for one week. He stands accused of defaming a now-95-year-old World War II veteran by calling him a “traitor” and “corrupt lackey.”
Friday’s decision came three days after the anti-corruption activist was sentenced to three-and-a-half years in prison, minus 10 months he had already served under house arrest. In that case, he was found to have broken the terms of a suspended sentence, handed down for an embezzlement conviction in 2014.
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