Opposition leader Alexei Navalny walks out after he visited a local broadcast radio station in Moscow January 14, 2015. REUTERS/Maxim Zmeyev
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russian prosecutors called on Tuesday for Kremlin critic and protest leader Alexei Navalny be jailed for 10 years as they appealed against a suspended sentence he received last year in a theft case, arguing it was 'too soft'.
Navalny and his brother Oleg were convicted last year of stealing 30 million roubles - nearly $500,000 (324,923 pounds) at the current exchange rate - from two firms, including an affiliate of the French cosmetics company Yves Rocher.
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