Navalny

In a significant development today, Russia has sentenced four journalists associated with the late opposition leader Alexei Navalny to five and a half years in a penal colony. This decision marks a concerning escalation in the ongoing crackdown on press freedom and dissent against the Kremlin. Alexei Navalny, once a prominent challenger to President Vladimir Putin, was labeled as an "extremist" by Russian authorities—a classification that continues to resonate even after his tragic death in an Arctic penal colony on…