Prosecution seeks hefty slander fine for Kremlin critic Navalny

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MOSCOW — Russian state prosecutors on Tuesday asked a court to fine Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny 950,000 roubles ($13,000) for slandering a World War Two veteran, a charge he calls politically motivated. President Vladimir Putin’s most prominent critic was jailed this month for almost three years for parole violations that he said were trumped up. […]

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