thank you, maria snegovaya _ for navalny. thank you, maria snegovaya from _ for navalny.maria l snegovaya from washington for joining us. still to come on the programme: who might own this multi—million dollar yacht that�*s set sail to avoid sanctions? find out later. i�*m so proud of both of you. let there be no more wars or bloodshed between arabs and israelis. with great regret, _ the committee have decided that south africa be excluded . from the 1970 competition. singing in own language streaking across the sky, the white—hot wreckage from mir drew gasps from onlookers on fiji. this is bbc news. the latest headlines: ukraine�*s president says there�*s a chance of surviving the war, as his military stops the russian advance on some key targets. the us condemns the latestjail sentence given to kremlin critic alexei navalny, washington says it�*s part of the crackdown on dissent, to hide the war in ukraine. as we�*ve been hearing, much of the focus of the current fighting is in the south of the country, where cities of key strategic importance lie along the coastline. 0

for more on this, i�*ve been speaking to maria snegovaya, visiting fellow at george washington universityurity in washington. she gave me her reaction to the navalny sentencing. the prosecutor actually asked for 13 years of imprisonment, so it in some unparallel world, you know, it is a decrease in sentence. unfortunately, russia�*s quickly sinking into darkness with an opposition to destroy, and of course the key 0pposition leaderjailed, essentially follow. we all understand that alexei navalny will stay injailfor as long as putin is alive. as of now, he is to be released in 2031, as horrible as it sounds. the kremlin has tightened rules on what the media can report in russia. what are russians being told about alexei navalny�*s sentence, and how much of what is going on in ukraine played into this? unfortunately, the ukraine situation has distracted this major process, major trial, the public attention from this trial, and unfortunately — it is very well—deserved that ukraine gets all of the attention but all of these other horrible things unravelling and russia therefore are not notice

maria snegovaya is a visiting fellow at george washington university, and adjunct senior fellow at the, thank you very much indeed for your time. let me just start with this editor, a very bold thing to do to a nation, brave, some would say foolhardy. what do we know of her state of situation now? unfortunately, she definitely created a very courageous deed. she has disappeared, human rights defenders, lawyers, are looking for her across all of moscow but she is nowhere to be found. it is possible of course that authorities, given how much fear and scare against those who are trying to stick up those who are trying to stick up against the war in russia today. it is possible that she might be facing some serious even criminal charges as a result for her very courageous deed. ~ . ., ., deed. we have heard a few rotest deed. we have heard a few protest are _ deed. we have heard a few protest are saying - deed. we have heard a few protest are saying we - deed. we have heard a few protest are saying we are l protest are saying we are prepared to do this because if we get arrested once we wi