On Friday, February 5, Alexei Navalny was brought to court on charges of defamation of a World War II veteran who participated in a promotional video backing last year's amendments to the Russian Constitution.
This time Navalny is accused of libel.
According to the investigators, on June 2, the blogger published a vide in his Telegram channel and Twitter account, in which World War II veteran Ignat Artyomenko expressed his position in support of the amendments to the Russian Constitution.
Navalny described the veteran and other people in the video as traitors without a conscience and as corrupt lackeys.
Insulting a 95-year-old WWII veteran in Russia is tantamount to political suicide for the so-called opposition leader.
Foreign diplomats from the British and French embassies were also present at the court today.
By the way, the Russian Foreign Ministry announced today has declared a Swedish, a Polish and a German diplomat personae non gratae because of their participation in the January 23 unauthorized rallies in Moscow and St. Petersburg. They must leave Russia as soon as possible.
All this happens at the moment when Minister Sergey Lavrov receives in his department EU's Josep Borrell.
Well, Navalny does not admit his guilt. Babushkinsky District court postponed the proceeding on the libel case against blogger Alexey Navalny until February 12.
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