(Adnkronos) – A Moscow military court sentenced Leonid Volkov, a Russian opponent and collaborator of the late Alexei Navalny, to 18 years in a maximum security prison. Mediazona reported it. The sentence was issued in absentia, as Volkov was forced to leave Russia in 2019 and was placed on the federal wanted list in 2021. He currently resides in Lithuania.
The judge sentenced Volkov to the maximum sentence requested by the prosecution based on 45 cases under nine criminal articles. The charges against the opponent range from “discrediting” the Russian army to links with an alleged “extremist group”, from “rehabilitation of Nazism” to the involvement of minors in rallies and acts of vandalism.
