Anti-corruption campaigner Alexei Navalny speaks during an interview with Reuters in Moscow January 27, 2014. REUTERS/Maxim Shemetov
MOSCOW (Reuters) - A Russian court placed opposition leader Alexei Navalny under house arrest for at least two months on Friday and barred him from using the Internet or speaking to the media.
The court said Navalny, an outspoken critic of President Vladimir Putin and a leader of anti-Kremlin protests in 2011 and 2012, had violated rules barring him from leaving Moscow.
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