Trial of lawyers who once represented Navalny gets under way in Russia
The trial of three lawyers who once represented late Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny has begun in Russia.
Vadim Kobzev, Igor Sergunin and Alexei Liptser were arrested in October 2023 on charges of involvement with an extremist group, in a case widely seen at the time as a means to ramp up pressure on the Kremlin’s fiercest foe.
