The Kremlin’s crackdown on Alexey Navalny risks turning him into a martyr

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Standing in a glass box in the back of a court in Moscow, Kremlin critic Alexey Navalny heard his fate — two years and eight months in a Russian prison for failing to report to parole officers. The thing is, he was in Germany at the time, recovering from a poisoning by a military grade chemical weapon.