Lithuania Identifies Over 1,000 Belarusians and Russians as National Security Threats

Russian opposition leader Aleksei Navalny has been sentenced to 19 years in Russia's harshest prison regime on charges of extremism related to his Anti-Corruption Foundation. The court convicted him under six articles of the Criminal Code, including creating and financing an extremist community. Navalny, who is already serving a nine-year prison sentence, reacted to the sentence by stating that the number of years does not matter. The European Union, the United States, and human rights organizations condemned the verdict, calling it a "sham" and "unjust" trial. Navalny's co-defendant was also sentenced to eight years in a penal colony.