A Moscow court is due to decide whether groups supporting jailed Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny should be declared extremist. The designation could mean long jail sentences for the activists. DW’s Emily Sherwin spoke to Navalny’s supporters about the pressures they now face.
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Deutsche Welle: Russia moves to brand critics as ‘extremists’
Russian police officers guard the entrance to the penal colony N2, where Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny has been transferred to serve a two-and-a-half year prison term for violating parole, in the town of Pokrov on April 6, 2021.
