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Russian court orders Yulia Navalnaya's arrest in absentia

A court in Moscow on Tuesday ordered Yulia Navalnaya, the widow of late Russian opposition politician Alexei Navalny, arrested in absentia for two months, Reuters reports.

The court accused Navalnaya, who lives outside Russia, of participating in an "extremist" group. The decision means she would face certain arrest if she set foot in the country.

Navalnaya, 47, has stepped into the spotlight following her husband's death in an Arctic penal colony in February and said she will continue the fight for what Navalny called the "beautiful Russia of the future."

Bogdan Nigai

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