Russia described calls by Western countries to free Kremlin opponent Alexei Navalny, who was sentenced to nearly three years in prison on Tuesday, as “disconnected from reality”.
“There is no need to interfere in the internal affairs of a sovereign state,” foreign ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova was cited by Russian news agencies as saying, adding that “appeals by Western colleagues” were “disconnected from reality”.
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