Investigators accuse Navalny of stealing more than $4.8m of public donations from the organisations he founded.
Highlights
- Russian opposition leader Alexey Navalny is accused of stealing more than $4.8m of public donations.
- He is currently serving a two and a half year sentence on old fraud charges.
- If found guilty, his sentence could extend up to 10 years.
- Amnesty International described the hearing as a “sham trial, attended by prison guards rather than the media’s.
- The trial comes amid increasing tension over Russia’s military build-up on its border with Ukraine.
- German Chancellor Olaf Scholz arrived in Moscow on Tuesday to defuse tensions.