Opposition leader Alexei Navalny has been released from prison after serving a 15-day sentence for distributing leaflets for an opposition rally on the subway. A court had earlier rejected his plea for early release to attend the funeral on Tuesday of murdered Putin critic Boris Nemtsov. On his release on Friday, Navalny said that Nemtsov’s murder…

Russian opposition activist Alexei Navalny left a Moscow detention center on Friday, one week after fellow Kremlin critic Boris Nemtsov was shot dead in the capital. Navalny was imprisoned for 15 days after handing out leaflets in the Moscow metro promoting a protest rally planned for March 1. The march, which Nemtsov was also involved in…