Navalny made his last speech at the trial in the colony

The state prosecution asked to sentence Navalny to 13 years in a strict regime colony on charges of fraud and insulting the COURT.The verdict in the case of the oppositionist will be announced on March 22 Alexei Navalny (on the screen in the center) and lawyer Olga Mikhailova (second on the screen from the right)

Oppositionist Alexei Navalny made his final speech at a visiting court in a penal colony in the Vladimir region, saying that he would not give up "his words and what he did," even if the prosecution requests a sentence of 113, not 13 years in prison , according to Novaya Gazeta.

Earlier that day, the state prosecution asked the court to sentence Navalny to 13 years in a strict regime colony on charges of fraud and contempt of court.

“Don't worry about me. I’m completely ok and I’m only worried about what others are worried about me,” he said, adding that his foundation (FBK, recognized by the court as an extremist organization and liquidated) “will not die out, but will reach a new global level of work, becoming an international organization."

The prosecution asked for Navalny 13 years in prison and a fine of ₽1.2 million Politics

Hearings in the case were held at an off-site meeting in a correctional colony in the Vladimir region, where Navalny is serving his sentence. Prosecutor Nadezhda Tikhonova asked the court to sentence Navalny to imprisonment for 13 years with restriction of freedom for two years, and also to sentence the oppositionist to a fine of 1.2 million rubles.