MOSCOW - The police in Moscow arrested the anticorruption crusader and political opposition leader Aleksei A. Navalny on Dec. 30 for joining an unauthorized, antigovernment rally, just hours after a Moscow court had given him a suspended sentence on criminal fraud charges.
New York Times: Aleksei Navalny, Putin critic, is arrested at rally after suspended sentence in fraud case
Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny, centre, enters a courtroom to attend a trial in Kirov, Russia, April 17, 2013.