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Alexei Navalny visits exhibition showing drawings of politically motivated trials in Russia

(16 Oct 2013) Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny visited an art exhibition on Wednesday depicting politically motivated trials, just hours after his own five-year prison sentence was suspended at the Kirov Regional Court. Navalny visited the "Drawing Trial-2" exhibition in Kirov with his wife Yulia. The exhibition is dedicated to the latest wave of trials of opposition activists who are accused of staging mass disturbances during rallies in May 2012. Some drawings are devoted to the trials of Mikhail Khodorkovsky and Platon Lebedev, and other prominent cases. Commenting on the exhibition, Navalny said: "It is kind of outrageous that political trials have become the subject of artistic works, that there are whole galleries with exhibits dedicated to political trials." Earlier in the day, a Russian court suspended Navalny's five-year prison sentence, but upheld his conviction for theft that will prevent him from running in future elections. According to current Russian law, even a suspended sentence would eliminate Navalny from political office for life. Regardless, his wife, Yulia, said she was relieved by Wednesday's ruling. "Personally, I was ready for everything, and I could have come to the exhibition in a slightly different mood, but I'm happy today's trial (of her husband) ended the way it ended," she said. Navalny was convicted on embezzlement charges and sentenced to five years in prison on July 18, but was released the next day in what some considered a ploy to make the Moscow mayoral race, where he was registered as a candidate, look as competitive as possible. Navalny garnered an unexpected 27 per cent of the vote against the Kremlin-backed incumbent. His growing public profile has made it increasingly risky for the Kremlin to put him behind bars. Regardless of his own inability to hold office, Navalny, a charismatic speaker with a popular blog, could still prove a vital political force in Russia. He has vowed to wage an active campaign, even if not a candidate himself, in elections for the Moscow city government in September 2014. Find out more about AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/HowWeWork Twitter:   / ap_archive   Facebook:   / aparchives   ​​ Instagram:   / apnews   You can license this story through AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/metadata/you...