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              Russian Opposition Leader Placed Under House Arrest

   by VOA News

   A Russian court has placed opposition leader Alexei Navalny under house
   arrest for at least two months.
   Investigators on Wednesday asked the court to put Navalny under house
   arrest, arguing that he had violated travel restrictions during a
   criminal investigation against him.
   Navalny was already serving a seven-day sentence after being detained
   Monday with hundreds of other demonstrators at an unauthorized protest
   rally in Moscow.
   Last year, a Russian appeals court suspended his five-year prison
   sentence after the anti-corruption blogger was convicted in July of
   organizing the 2009 theft of some $500,000 from a timber firm. Navalny
   described the trial as politically motivated.
   The latest charges against him and his brother, Oleg, include fraud and
   money laundering of well over $1 million.
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