The Moscow City Court, during a visiting session in the Babushkinsky Court of Moscow, recognized the replacement of Alexei Navalny's suspended sentence with a real one in the Yves Rocher case as legal.

An appeal against the relevant decision of the Simonovsky District Court was earlier filed by Navalny's defense.

At the same time, judge Dmitry Balashov adjusted the term of serving the sentence, taking into account the month and a half spent by Navalny under house arrest.

“The decision of the Simonovsky District Court of Moscow dated February 2, 2021 in relation to the convicted A.A. Navalny.

change.

Set off in the term of serving the sentence the time spent by Navalny A.A.

under house arrest from December 30, 2014 to February 18, 2015.

The rest of the ruling should be left unchanged, appeals were not satisfied, ”the judge said.

It is reported that, taking into account the sentence served, Navalny will spend about 2.5 years in the colony.

  • The court recognized the decision to replace Navalny's suspended sentence with a real one

The defense plans to appeal the court decision.

Lawyer Olga Mikhailova said that the court rejected the petition to release Navalny at the request of the European Court of Human Rights.

“During the meeting, we filed a petition for the release of Navalny on the basis of the ECtHR's decision, which previously applied rule 39 on interim measures and demanded on this basis to immediately release him.

The judge said he would evaluate this motion and make a decision on it in the deliberation room.

Obviously, he rejected it, ”the lawyer quotes TASS.

Earlier, the Minister of Justice of the Russian Federation Konstantin Chuichenko called this requirement of the ECHR unprecedented due to the gross interference in the activities of the judiciary of a sovereign state.

According to him, this unreasonable and unlawful demand does not "contain any indication of a single fact or a single rule of law that would allow the court to make such a decision."

He stressed that the ECHR's demand "is obviously unenforceable, since in accordance with Russian law there is no legal basis for the release of this person from custody."

The Kremlin also condemned the actions of the ECHR, calling its demand "a very serious attempt to interfere in domestic Russian court cases."

According to the press secretary of the President of the Russian Federation Dmitry Peskov, haste and commitment in making such decisions raises "a lot of questions" from the Russian side.

Later, a RIA Novosti source in the Ministry of Justice said that the department had asked the ECHR to reconsider the decision in which Russia was demanded to release Navalny.

Among the arguments: the court's demand is not based on facts and goes beyond its competence, was adopted without evidence of violation of the rights of the convicted person in the pre-trial detention center, while Russia provided the ECHR with data on the conditions of Navalny's detention in the detention center, but the court did not take them into account.

Note that the Saturday session on the Yves Rocher case was attended by diplomats from nine countries: Denmark, Latvia, Lithuania, the Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Finland, Sweden and Estonia, as well as a representative of the European Union.

In addition, the press service of the court told RIA Novosti that representatives of 18 foreign media were accredited for the meeting.

Answering the question about the likely impact of the Moscow City Court's verdict on political life in Russia, Dmitry Peskov said that the country has "enough pluralism in the political arena" and that many oppose the Kremlin.

“Someone is doing this within the framework of the law, someone is beyond the bounds of decency.

Someone is doing this, standing with their feet on Russian soil.

Someone does it, standing with one or two feet on foreign soil.

Everything is different for everyone, ”said Peskov.

“The Kremlin has many opponents, and this is a normal political process.

Therefore, political life in Russia has developed and will continue to develop, ”added the presidential press secretary.

Recall that on February 2, 2021, the Simonovsky District Court of Moscow satisfied the FSIN's submission and ordered, due to numerous violations, to replace Alexei Navalny with 3.5 years of probation in the Yves Rocher case with 3.5 years in a general regime colony.

Taking into account the time spent under house arrest, the sentence was two years and eight months.

On February 20, he was reduced to about 2.5 years.

Prosecutor Yekaterina Frolova told reporters that the criminal executive inspection of the Federal Penitentiary Service suspended supervision of Navalny during his treatment at the German clinic Charite.

And we are talking about his violation of the conditions of the probationary period, there are seven episodes that occurred before August 20, 2020.

In addition, the convict did not notify the FSIN of his whereabouts from the end of September to November 2020, although he was obliged to do so.

Also on Saturday, February 20, the magistrate ruled in the case of Navalny's libel against the veteran of the Great Patriotic War Ignat Artyomenko.

The prosecution demanded to impose a sentence of 950 thousand rubles and attach a new verdict to the Yves Rocher case.

“The court ruled to recognize A.A. Navalny.

guilty of a crime under Part 2 of Art.

128.1 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation ("Slander"), - said Vera Akimova, Justice of the Peace in the Yuzhnoye Medvedkovo metropolitan area.

"The court ruled to impose ... a fine in the amount of 850 thousand rubles."

“Add this punishment to the punishment provided for by the verdict of the Zamoskvoretsky court under Art.

159 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation and to impose the final punishment in the form of 3.5 years in a penal colony with a fine of 850 thousand rubles, ”the judge said.

According to her, the position of the accused was taken into account, who did not admit his guilt and said that he did not want to offend anyone, and his words were evaluative and related to all supporters of amendments to the Constitution of the Russian Federation.

At the same time, the judge did not find aggravating circumstances in the case, recognizing the presence of a convicted minor as a mitigating circumstance.

At the same time, the court was critical of Navalny's testimony and concluded that his actions were “deliberate and purposeful”.

Recall that at the beginning of June 2020, an RT video was published on voting on amendments to the Constitution.

Actors and public figures who read the preambles of the basic law of the Russian Federation, as well as a veteran of the Great Patriotic War Ignat Artyomenko, took part in his filming.

Soon, Navalny published a video in which he insulted the participants in the video, in particular, calling them "lackeys and traitors."

After that, he was sued on charges of libel.

During one of the court sessions, a linguist invited by the prosecution confirmed in court that Navalny's words contained an insult.

At the same time, during the process, Navalny repeatedly insulted its participants, including Artyomenko and his relatives.

Judge Vera Akimova also ruled to satisfy the request of the prosecutor's office and to allocate case materials to verify Navalny's statements to the judge and the prosecutor during the trial.

The inspection will be carried out by the capital's headquarters of the Investigative Committee of Russia.

After the meeting, Navalny's defense announced their intention to appeal the verdict.