FILE PHOTO: People participate in a demonstration after Russian opposition politician Alexei Navalny was jailed, in Moscow, Russia February 2, 2021. REUTERS/Evgenia Novozhenina/File Photo
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny's wife told his supporters on Wednesday they would still triumph despite his jailing and thanked them for protesting in a case she said had made her life a stream of police stations, home searches and court hearings.
A court on Tuesday sentenced Navalny, a prominent opponent of Vladimir Putin, to three and a half years for parole violations he said were trumped up to sideline him, ignoring calls from the West and protesters at home to release him.
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