MOSCOW — A Moscow judge on Tuesday left open the possibility of jailing President Vladimir Putin's main critic for years, a sign of Putin's increasingly hard-line rule against opponents.
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Kremlin critic and opposition leader Alexei Navalny speaks with journalists outside a court in Moscow, on April 22, 2012, after listening to the verdict in the slander case against him. Navalny was found today guilty of slandering a municipal lawmaker and ordered to pay a hefty fine, the Twitter account of President Vladimir Putin's leading critic said. AFP PHOTO / ALEXANDER NEMENOV
