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A Moscow court has extended by one year the five-year suspended prison sentence given to opposition leader Aleksei Navalny on an embezzlement conviction in the so-called Kirovles case.

“[The court rules] to extend Navalny’s probation period until July 8, 2019,” Judge Svetlana Tumanina read from the ruling on June 25 at Moscow’s Simonovsky District Court.

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