LILIA CHANYSHEVA: (Non-English language spoken).
Chanysheva took a job running the regional office of Alexey Navalny's Anti-Corruption Foundation in the capital city Ufa, where her skills as a financial auditor quickly made her an effective check on budgetary graft - but also, her allies argue, a government target. "But she wanted to improve life in her home region." And that's where the trouble began. MAYNES: "She could have stayed and made money in Moscow," says her husband Almaz Gatin. Chanysheva worked in a major international accounting firm in Moscow before moving back to her native Bashkortostan, a republic nestled to the west of the Ural Mountains.
Here's NPR's Charles Maynes in Moscow.ĬHARLES MAYNES, BYLINE: Forty-one-year-old Lilia Chanysheva has always denied charges she's an extremist, and she doesn't seem to fit the profile. The ruling is the latest in a series of questionable convictions and lengthy prison terms issued to political opponents of the Kremlin. A Russian court this week sentenced a leading associate of opposition leader Alexey Navalny to 7 1/2 years in prison on extremism-related charges.
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