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Navalny: ambitious crusader against Putin faces trial

AFP

Russia’s charismatic protest leader Alexei Navalny, who has openly declared his desire to replace President Vladimir Putin, has galvanised the opposition but now faces a trial on charges he says were dreamt up by the Kremlin. The lawyer-turned-politician with clean-cut looks goes on trial on April…