Russia News / A staunch critic of President Putin was sentenced to 10 years in jail... Know what his 'fault' was.

Russia News: It is common in Russia to jail opposition leaders and brutally crush their demonstrations. Whenever big leaders are arrested, it especially attracts the attention of the world. Now, it was just yesterday, Friday, that a Russian court sentenced Ksenia Fadeyeva, one of Putin's staunchest critics, to a prison sentence of about ten years. Ksenia is a close aide of opposition leader Alexei Navalny. Ksenia looked after Navalny's organization in the Siberian city of Tomsk. Now this organization has been banned.

Since the attack on Ukraine, Russia has been firmly suppressing all opposition forces and criticism in its country. The state of repression is such that citizens are arrested for protesting against the war. Ksenia Fadeyeva's supporters have said she has been convicted of extremism but will appeal the verdict in a higher court. Ksenia's lawyer says that she was threatened and justice has been tampered with in this case.

Who is Ksenia Fadeeva?

Ksenia Fadeyeva is 31 years old. She looked after the functioning of the political office of Navalny's organization in Tomsk. It was here that Navalny was poisoned before the elections in August 2020. Fadeyeva was elected as a member of the Legislative Assembly of Tomsk city in the year 2020. Ksenia's victory was considered a major victory for the opposition against Putin. But now all this seems to be turning into dust. The entire world will be watching how the opposition camp will proceed from here onwards.

Everyone left, Ksenia stood firm

Tomsk is considered a brave politician in Russian politics. The reason for his bravery is his standing firm against Putin. When Russian officials declared his organization extremist in 2021. After this what happened was that Ksenia's supporters and members started being prosecuted. As a result, many of Navalny's associates started leaving one by one, but Ksenia remained firm. Then two years ago in the month of December, Ksenia was taken into custody and now the decision has been given that she will have to spend nine years in jail.