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Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny has been declared ineligible to take part in next year’s presidential election. He’s serving a suspended sentence in a case he says was organized to stop his political career.

Russia’s central electoral commission said on Friday that prominent opposition leader Alexei Navalny was barred from running as a candidate in the country’s presidential election next March and April.

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