The Morning Vertical, October 18, 2017
(World News Russia)

ON MY MIND Aleksei Navalny has spent a lot of time in Russian courts over the past several years. There was his trial for embezzlement in the Kirovles case back in 2013. There was his trial for fraud and money laundering in the Yves Rocher case in 2014. And there`ve been all those hearings over the years for participating in unauthorized protests. But there is only one court that is not controlled by the Kremlin that has ever issued a ruling in any case involving Navalny -- the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR). And it has done so in three separate cases. In November 2016, the ECHR ruled that Navalny`s conviction for embezzlement in the Kirovles case violated his rights and those of his...