http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-20798023
The other fur lined boot/canor...has finally dropped.
Staunch blogger/lawyer/corruption critic and Putin opponent...Alexei Navalny...along with his brother Oleg...have been formally charged with fraud and money-laundering.
A Moscow agency accused them of stealing $1.8 million from 2008-11 from a postal business.
Navalny dismissed the charges as 'complete nonsense.'
The brothers face fines...and prison sentences of up to 3 years.
In July...Navalny was also been charged with embezzlement in a timber deal.
He is not able to leave Moscow.
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