![]() ![]() As a sign of protest he said he was declaring a hunger strike. He had addressed a small crowd in Moscow after a peaceful rally last weekend. Earlier, another court jailed far-left leader Sergei Udaltsov for 10 days for disobeying police. Nothing,” said his wife Olga Romanova, who was in court to hear the sentence. “We need a reform of the courts, otherwise there will be nothing, no revision of any results, neither the election results nor anything else. ![]() Last year Kozlov was freed when the case was sent for retrial. He will serve a maximum of two years having already spent three behind bars over charges of stealing shares. Supporters in court shouted ‘shame’ as Kozlov was led away. Alexei Kozlov, whose wife belongs to a group that helped organise a wave of rallies against Putin in recent months, was found guilty of fraud in a business deal pre-dating the protests, and sentenced to five years in prison. The Russian opposition says a series of convictions of leading opponents of Vladimir Putin is a warning signal. Russian opposition: jailings are Putin ‘warning’ ![]()
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