Russia: Udaltsov Charged With Plotting Riots

Russian Activists In Legal Trouble

Updated: 3:26pm UK, Friday 26 October 2012

A number of public figures openly critical of President Vladimir Putin's regime have faced legal action in Russia.

Sergei Udaltsov:

One of Russia's most prominent activists and leader of opposition party the Left Front, Udaltsov was charged with plotting riots with Georgian officials.

Political analyst Andrei Piontkovsky said: "The charges are completely made up - the evidence wouldn't be sufficient in any normal country with a healthy rule of law. Modern Russia is completely different."

Alexander Lebedev:

The owner of the Evening Standard and The Independent faces up to five years in jail if found guilty of hooliganism over a fight he had on live TV in Russia.

Lebedev has also been openly critical of the Kremlin and claims he is being targeted by President Vladimir Putin.

Pussy Riot:

Three members of the female band were jailed in August after storming Moscow's main cathedral and performing a "punk prayer" mocking Mr Putin, just before he won a new term as president.

One of the trio, Yekaterina Samutsevich, was later released, when she described the court that sentenced her as "the theatre of the absurd".

"For some reason the government decided to take it to the maximum level of absurd," she said.

"We were treated as if we killed hundreds of people."

Alexei Navalny:

Russia's State Investigative Committee opened a criminal probe in July against opposition leader Alexei Navalny on allegations of theft. He described the charges as "very strange".

The corruption-fighting lawyer and popular blogger was charged with organising large-scale theft and ordered to stay in Moscow.

Mikhail Khodorkovsky:

The former oil mogul was jailed in 2003 and again in 2010, on charges including embezzlement and money laundering. He is due to be released in 2017.

He has been publicly critical of what he has referred to as "managed democracy" in Russia. Observers have insisted his trials were politically motivated and Amnesty International considers him a prisoner of conscience.

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