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FILE - Alexei Navalny is surrounded by journalists in a plane before a flight to Moscow in the Berlin Brandenburg Airport on Sunday, Jan. 17, 2021. Over the past 12 months, scores of activists, independent journalists and rights advocates have been targeted with raids, detained and designated as terrorists and foreign agents. In a span of a decade, Navalny has gone from the Kremlin's biggest foe to Russia's most prominent political prisoner. Already serving two convictions that have landed him in prison for at least nine years, he faces a new trial that could keep him behind for another two decades. AP Photo/Mstyslav Chernov, File)