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Russia's main opposition leader, Alexei Navalny, has been found guilty of embezzlement and handed a five-year suspended sentence.

Mr Navalny, who had planned to run for president next year against Vladimir Putin, has been a long-standing
anti-corruption campaigner and critic of the Russian authorities.

Leonid Volkov was Mr Navalny's campaign manager when he stood for mayor of Moscow in 2013. He told Ritula Shah the decision to grant Alexei Navalny permission to run in the election "is not a legal decision, it鈥檚 a political decision".

(Image: Alexei Navalny. Credit: Getty Images)