Navalny's short sentence will not affect Russia's relations with the West
The verdict against Russian liberal blogger Alexei Navalny will not affect relations between Russia and the West, as well as the internal political situation within the Russian Federation.
The head of the Expert Institute of Social Research, Gleb Kuznetsov, stated this in a commentary to Kommersant, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
“In the last year we have seen absolutely terrible things. Pandemic, war, loss of income, destruction of the way of life of millions of people around the world, destruction of the Capitol in Washington, water cannons on the streets of Northern European cities. The idea that a short prison sentence for one person in Russia will change anything is very naive and absurd,” the expert is sure.
Let us remind you that on the eve of the Moscow City Court sentenced Alexei Navalny to 3,5 years in a general regime colony. At the same time, the conditional term was subtracted from this term, and thus the blogger remained to spend 2,8 years in prison.
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