A Russian court has found opposition leader Alexei Navalny guilty in a retrial over charges of embezzlement.<br /><br /> He was tried on charges of embezzling funds from the state-controlled forestry company KirovLes. <br /><br /> Navalny won’t be able to run for the presidency in 2018.<br /><br /> In November, Russia’s Supreme Court struck down a lower court’s decision to hand Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny a five year suspended sentence for corruption and sent the case back for retrial.<br /><br /> The European Court of Human Rights ruled in February that the opposition activist’s right to a fair trial had been violated.<br /><br /> Navalny has said the original verdict was politically motivated and designed to prevent him from taking part, and running against President Putin, in elections.<br /><br /> Navalny’s supporters want him to run against Putin, though opinion polls show he has substantially less backing among Russian voters than the president.<br />
