Anti–Putin blogger faces trial for theft

AN OPPOSITION leader is set to stand trial for theft this month, a Russian court has said.

Alexei Navalny, an anti-corruption blogger and leader of protests last year whose case has been compared to the prosecution of oil tycoon Mikhail Khodorkovsky during Vladimir Putin’s first stint in the presidency in 2000-8, is to go on trial on 17 April.

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