Russia's opposition leader and anti-graft blogger Alexei Navalny smiles as he meets with the media near his campaign headquarters in Moscow August 20, 2013. REUTERS/Sergei Karpukhin
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny's troubles mounted on Wednesday when a court rejected his bid to push his main pro-Kremlin rival out of the Moscow mayoral race and an electoral official said Navalny himself might be disqualified.
Navalny, who emerged from a wave of anti-government protests that began in 2011 as the most popular opposition figure, was sentenced to five years in prison last month for theft after a trial he has said was President Vladimir Putin's revenge.
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