GENEVA: Russian President Vladimir Putin says resistance leader Alexei Navalny got what he deserved when he had been given a prison sentence.
Navalny,” Putin’s most fervent political foe, had been detained in January upon arriving from Germany, where he spent five weeks recovering from a nerve agent poisoning he blames to the Kremlin – a accusation that Russian officers refuse.
Back in February, Navalny has been granted a 2 1/2-year prison sentence for violating the conditions of a suspended sentence by a 2014 embezzlement certainty he dismissed as politically inspired.
Talking Wednesday following a summit with US President Joe Biden at Geneva,” Putin stated Navalny acquired his due diligence for violating the conditions of his probation, including that he had been conscious he had been facing a prison sentence after he returned to Russia.
“He intentionally moved to be detained,” Putin said, sticking with his habit of not even mentioning Navalny by title.
Last week, a Moscow court resisted the organisations based by Navalny by tagging them extremist, the most recent move in an effort to silence dissent and pub Kremlin critics out of running for parliament in September.