Jailed Kremlin critic Alexey Navalny, on trial on extremism charges that could see him imprisoned for decades, on Tuesday wondered wryly why he was a greater threat to Russia than the mercenaries who had launched an armed mutiny. In tweets posted by his aides, Navalny said he had been allowed no radio or conversations in his penal colony since June 1. So he thought his lawyers were teasing him when they told him before a session of his trial about the Wagner militia's aborted weekend mutiny against military chiefs, in which an armed convoy drove to within 200 km (120 miles) of Moscow.

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