KIROV, Russia – Prosecutors have asked a Russian judge to convict Kremlin foe Aleksei Navalny in a retrial and hand him a suspended five-year sentence, a punishment he said was meant to bar him from running for president in 2018.
The state prosecutor made the request as anticorruption crusader Navalny’s politically charged trial drew to a close at a court in the provincial city of Kirov on Feb. 3.
