MOSCOW (Reuters) - The legal defence team of jailed Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny on Wednesday made public for the first time the full text of a Russian court ruling that outlawed his political network as "extremist" on June 9.
The ruling, described by the lawyers as part of an "unprecedented crackdown" on Navalny's activities, bans his allies from running in elections and grants authorities the power to jail activists and freeze their bank accounts.
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