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Moscow correspondent for the Guardian
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Miriam Elder
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FROM Miriam Elder
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Five Years in Jail for Russian Anti-Putin Activist Russia's most popular dissident, Alexei Navalny, has called President Vladimir Putin the country's "main thief." Today, he was sentenced to five years in prison for embezzlement and removed from the courtroom in handcuffs. That led to protests on the streets of Moscow, where Miriam Elder reports for the Guardian .
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