The father of a close aide of Russian opposition figure Alexey Navalny has been given three years in prison for fraud, in a case the activist’s allies have called politically motivated.
Yuri Zhdanov, the father of Ivan Zhdanov, was given a suspended sentence last year. However, on Thursday, a court in the Russian city of Naryan-Mar overturned Zhdanov’s probation, citing a violation, opting instead to replace it with a real jail term, meaning he will now be forced to serve the entire three years behind bars.
Naryan-Mar is a small city around 1,500 kilometers north of Moscow and sits inside the Arctic Circle.
“His sentence was changed. The court swapped the suspended sentence with a real one. We will appeal,” his lawyer told Moscow daily RBC.
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