During the evening of Wednesday 8 February, the European Union spoke out against the five-year suspended prison sentence against Alexei Navalny, the main opponent of Russia's President Vladimir Putin.
In a press release, the spokesperson for the European External Action Service (EEAS) said that the verdict of the Leninsky Court in Kirov handed down earlier that day against Navalny on charges of embezzlement "attempts to silence yet another independent political voice in the Russian...