Moscow Mayoral candidate Alexei Navalny battles with dictatorship and Russia’s justice system

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Russia probes protest leader over foreign funding

AFP – Russian prosecutors on Monday accused protest leader Alexei Navalny of breaking the law in his campaign for Moscow mayor by receiving donations from foreign nationals, adding to the legal woes of President Vladimir Putin’s top critic. Navalny is 37. Russia’s economy minister said on Monday that dramatically slowing growth indicated the country had entered a period of possibly prolonged stagnation but that an outright recession was avoidable. Alexei Ulyukayev’s comments came after the first initial admission of the issue.