A Russian judge on Thursday decided to throw out a new appeal from anti-corruption activist Alexey Navalny, who had hoped to overturn an earlier legal ruling in which he was found guilty of libel against a WWII veteran and fined.
Natalya Kurysheva, the jurist presiding over the case at the Babushkinsky District Court of Moscow, rejected the challenge and upheld the previous verdict, handed out in February. Navalny had been ordered to pay 850,000 rubles ($11,440) for calling Ignat Artemenko, a Belarusian-born former soldier who fought the Nazis as a partisan, a “traitor.”
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