Court finds Navalny guilty of slandering WWII veteran

MOSCOW. Feb 20 (Interfax) - A magistrate's court, at a session at Moscow's Babushkinsky Court on Saturday, found Russian opposition activist Alexei Navalny guilty of slandering World War II veteran Ignat Artyomenko, an Interfax correspondent reported from the courtroom.

"Alexei Anatolyevich Navalny committed an act of slander [...]," Judge Vera Akimova said as she began pronouncing the court ruling.