Police detain protesters during a demonstration against the jailing of opposition leader Alexei Navalny in Moscow, Russia on December 31, 2021. Police detained more than 4,100 protesters demanding the release of the critic of Vladimir Putin. (Photo by Mikhail Svetlov/Getty Images)





People clash with police during a protest against the jailing of opposition leader Alexei Navalny in Moscow, Russia, Sunday, January 31, 2021. Thousands of people took to the streets Sunday across Russia to demand the release of jailed opposition leader Alexei Navalny, keeping up the wave of nationwide protests that have rattled the Kremlin. Hundreds were detained by police. (Photo by Alexander Zemlianichenko/AP Photo)





A man with a sign “Navalny” on his back stands in front of riot policemen blocking the way to protester during a protest against the jailing of opposition leader Alexei Navalny in St. Petersburg, Russia, Sunday, January 31, 2021. (Photo by Dmitri Lovetsky/AP Photo)





Police stand blocking approaches to the street during a protest against the jailing of opposition leader Alexei Navalny in Moscow, Russia, Sunday, January 31, 2021. (Photo by Andrew Lubimov/AP Photo)





Detained protesters walk escorted by police during a protest against the jailing of opposition leader Alexei Navalny in St. Petersburg, Russia, Sunday, January 31, 2021. (Photo by Dmitri Lovetsky/AP Photo)





A police officer stands guard next to a building where a court will consider a motion from the Russian prison service to convert the suspended sentence of Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny from the 2014 criminal conviction into a real prison term in Moscow, Russia, Tuesday, February 2, 2021. (Photo by Alexander Zemlianichenko/AP Photo)





Law enforcement officers walk past a wall near the Moscow City Court during the trial of Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny, charged with violating the terms of a 2014 suspended sentence for embezzlement, in Moscow on February 2, 2021. (Photo by Natalia Kolesnikova/AFP Photo)





Police officers detain a Navalny supporter during a protest in St. Petersburg, Russia, Tuesday, February 2, 2021. A Moscow court has ordered Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny to prison for more than 2 1/2 years on charges that he violated the terms of his probation while he was recuperating in Germany from nerve-agent poisoning. Navalny, who is the most prominent critic of President Vladimir Putin, had earlier denounced the proceedings as a vain attempt by the Kremlin to scare millions of Russians into submission. (Photo by Dmitri Lovetsky/AP Photo)





Servicemen of the Russian National Guard (Rosgvardia) gather at the Red Square to prevent a protest rally in Moscow, Russia, Tuesday, February 2, 2021. A Moscow court has ordered Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny to prison for more than 2 1/2 years on charges that he violated the terms of his probation while he was recuperating in Germany from nerve-agent poisoning. Navalny, who is the most prominent critic of President Vladimir Putin, had earlier denounced the proceedings as a vain attempt by the Kremlin to scare millions of Russians into submission. (Photo by Pavel Golovkin/AP Photo)





Riot police officers run to detain Navalny supporters during a protest in Moscow, Russia, Tuesday, February 2, 2021. (Photo by Victor Berezkin/AP Photo)





People attend a protest after Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny was sentenced to jail in Moscow, Russia, Tuesday, February 2, 2021. (Photo by Pavel Golovkin/AP Photo)





Detained people are seen inside a police vehicle in downtown Moscow on February 2, 2021. A Moscow court on February 2 ordered the Kremlin's most prominent critic Alexei Navalny jailed for nearly three years, triggering an immediate call for protests and condemnation in the West. (Photo by Kirill Kudryavtsev/AFP Photo)





Riot police officers detain people during a protest against a court ruling ordered Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny jailed for nearly three years, in downtown Moscow on February 2, 2021. (Photo by Alexander Nemenov/AFP Photo)





Police officers detain a Navalny supporter at the Red Square in Moscow, Russia, Tuesday, February 2, 2021. A Moscow court has ordered Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny to prison for more than 2 1/2 years on charges that he violated the terms of his probation while he was recuperating in Germany from nerve-agent poisoning. Navalny, who is the most prominent critic of President Vladimir Putin, had earlier denounced the proceedings as a vain attempt by the Kremlin to scare millions of Russians into submission. (Photo by Denis Kaminev/AP Photo)





Russian reinforced policemen detain Navalny's supporter in downtown of Moscow, Russia, 02 February 2021. The visiting session of the Simonovsky city court decided to grant the Federal Penitentiary Service petition to replace the suspended sentence with a real one. 3.5 years in a general regime colony, while the time spent under house arrest during the investigation of the 'Yves Rocher' case must be credited. Thus, when the sentence comes into force, the term will be 2 years 8 months. Opposition leader Alexei Navalny was detained after his arrival to Moscow from Germany on 17 January 2021. A Moscow judge on 18 January ruled that he will remain in custody for 30 days following his airport arrest. (Photo by Yuri Kochetkov/EPA/EFE)





A journalist watches a live stream of a court hearings with the Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny on a screen as Russian Rosguardia (National Guard) soldiers guard in front of the court in Moscow, Russia, Tuesday, February 2, 2021. A Moscow court has ordered Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny to prison for more than 2 1/2 years on charges that he violated the terms of his probation while he was recuperating in Germany from nerve-agent poisoning. Navalny, who is the most prominent critic of President Vladimir Putin, had earlier denounced the proceedings as a vain attempt by the Kremlin to scare millions of Russians into submission. (Photo by Pavel Golovkin/AP Photo)





Law enforcement officers are seen deployed in downtown Saint Petersburg as the Moscow City Court holds the trial of the Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny, charged with violating the terms of a 2014 suspended sentence for embezzlement, February 2, 2021. (Photo by Olga Maltseva/AFP Photo)





Russian reinforced policemen detain Navalny's supporter in downtown of St. Petersburg, Russia, 02 February 2021. The visiting session of the Simonovsky city court decided to grant the Federal Penitentiary Service petition to replace the suspended sentence with a real one. 3.5 years in a general regime colony, while the time spent under house arrest during the investigation of the 'Yves Rocher' case must be credited. Thus, when the sentence comes into force, the term will be 2 years 8 months. Opposition leader Alexei Navalny was detained after his arrival to Moscow from Germany on 17 January 2021. A Moscow judge on 18 January ruled that he will remain in custody for 30 days following his airport arrest. (Photo by Anatoly Maltsev/EPA/EFE)





Law enforcement officers block Moscow's Manezhnaya Square on February 2, 2021. A Moscow court on February 2 granted a prosecutors' request for Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny to serve prison time for violating the terms of his parole. Judge Natalya Repnikova ordered a suspended three-and-a-half-year sentence Navalny received in 2014 to be changed to time in a penal colony, an AFP journalist at the courthouse said. Repnikova said time Navalny previously spent under house arrest in the sentence would count as time served, and, according to his team, that would mean at least two-and-a-half years in prison now. Navalny's Anti-Corruption Fund (FBK) immediately called for supporters to protest in central Moscow. (Photo by Kirill Kudryavtsev/AFP Photo)





People run during a protest against a court ruling ordered Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny jailed for nearly three years, in downtown Moscow early on February 3, 2021. (Photo by Natalia Kolesnikova/AFP Photo)





Riot police outside the Kazan Cathedral in Nevsky Avenue in St Petersburg, Russia on February 2, 2021. The city authorities tighten security measures as Moscow's court rules to convert Russian opposition activist Alexei Navalny's suspended sentence of three and a half years in the Yves Rocher case into a real jail term. (Photo by Peter Kovalev/TASS)