A 33-year-old man from Kirov, Alexei Kuznetsov, has been sentenced to three years of forced labor in Russia for donations made to the Anti-Corruption Fund, the organization founded by opposition figure Alexei Navalny. The sentence was pronounced at the Savelovsky Court in Moscow.
The prosecutors had asked for a harsher sentence, three and a half years of detention in a colony. However, the court took into account the period previously spent in pretrial detention and under house arrest, which will be deducted from the sentence.
Kuznetsov will be required to transfer 15% of his income to the state during the execution of his sentence and will additionally have ten months of freedom restriction. The authorities also demanded the reimbursement of the donated amount, equivalent to 2,100 rubles.
The case was opened in March 2025, and a few weeks later, Rosfinmonitoring included the man in the official list of “terrorists and extremists” — a label increasingly applied in Russia to those who financially or publicly support projects affiliated with Navalny.
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