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        Russian Investigators Want Putin Foe Navalny Under House Arrest

   by Reuters

   Russian investigators asked a court on Wednesday to place under house
   arrest the man who emerged as a leading opposition figure from a wave
   of protests in 2011-2012 against President Vladimir Putin.
   Putin's critics accuse the Kremlin of stepping up pressure on dissent
   in recent weeks, with an eye to upheaval in neighboring Ukraine where
   demonstrations have unseated President Viktor Yanukovich.
   Alexei Navalny is currently subject to a five-year suspended sentence
   on a theft conviction he says was a Kremlin reprisal for his political
   dissent.
   The federal Investigative Committee, which answers to Putin, said in a
   statement Navalny had violated an order not to leave Moscow while
   investigations against him continued. He should therefore be confined
   under house arrest.
   Navalny has been jailed until Monday for resisting arrest earlier this
   week while protesting the conviction of eight activists found guilty of
   rioting and attacking police at a protest on the eve of Putin's
   inauguration to a third term.
   He was among hundreds of protesters detained on Monday for
   demonstrating against what they called a "show trial".
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