FOG BLOG WORLD BLOG: NAVALNY, RUSSIA OPPOSITION LEADER TO GET 19 MORE YEARS IN JAIL!

Navalny: Russia opposition leader gets 19 more years in jail Alexei Navalny's supporters say the charges against him, over his now-closed political movement, are trumped up. He is already serving a nearly 12-year sentence. The Kremlin's most prominent critic, Alexei Navalny, was jailed for 19 additional years Friday after being convicted of extremism in a closed-door trial that his supporters called a sham to keep him locked up and out of Russian politics.

The 47-year-old is already serving a nearly 12-year sentence for fraud, contempt of court and other charges. On Friday, Navalny was found guilty of founding and financing an extremist organization and trivializing Nazism.

The charges relate to his role in his now-defunct political movement inside Russia, which the authorities said had been trying to foment a revolution by seeking to destabilize social and political organizations.