The decision was made in absentia because authorities do not know where 38-year-old Oleg Navalny is currently located. In concrete terms, the court has converted a suspended prison sentence he received last year for violation of the corona measures into an effective prison sentence, his lawyer Nikos Paraskevov explains on Twitter.
At the end of January, the brother of the main Kremlin critic was placed on the want list of the Russian Interior Ministry. His lawyer then told the Russian news agency Interfax that he did not know whether Oleg Navalny was still in Russia.