On June 27, 2016, a court in Russia’s Oryol Region denied Oleg Navalny parole. By that point, he was serving his sentence in the Yves Rocher case—the case in which Alexei Navalny received a suspended sentence, while his brother was given a real prison term. This was one of the clearest examples of pressure on Alexei Navalny through his family: Oleg remained in a penal colony not because he posed any real danger to society, but because the authorities continued to take revenge on Alexei for his political activities.
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