Who is Navalny associate Lilia Chanysheva?
By DW
15 June 2023 |
7:02 am
An associate of Russian opposition figure Alexei Navalny has been sentenced to 7 1/2 years in prison for founding an "extremist" group. How did former auditor Lilia Chanysheva become an outspoken Putin critic?
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