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In this photo provided by the Babuskinsky District Court on Thursday, April 29, 2021, Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny appears on TV screens via a video link from prison, during a hearing on his charges for defamation, in the Babuskinsky District Court in Moscow, Russia. The politician was convicted in February and ordered to pay a fine of 850-thousand rubles (the equivalent of $11,500). It was Navalny's first public appearance since his transfer to a penal colony last month. (Babuskinsky District Court Press Service via AP)