The High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, Josep Borrell, on behalf of the EU, strongly condemned on Tuesday 22 March in the evening the ruling of a Russian Court to extend the imprisonment of opposition politician Alexei Navalny in a high-security prison for nine years and to impose an administrative fine of €10,000.
“We also deeply regret that the court hearings were conducted in a de facto closed setting, inaccessible for observers in the penal...