Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny attends a hearing to consider an appeal against an earlier court decision to change his suspended sentence to a real prison term, in Moscow, Russia February 20, 2021, in this still image taken from video.
MOSCOW: The political future of jailed Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny is none of the Kremlin's business, President Vladimir Putin's spokesman said on Saturday.
Navalny earlier on Saturday lost his appeal against what he said was a politically motivated decision to jail him for nearly three years. A Moscow court did however shorten his original jail term by six weeks.
"It is absolutely none of our business," Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters when asked to comment on Navalny's political future after the decision. (Reporting by Gleb Stolyarov; Writing by Dmitry Antonov Editing by Andrew Osborn )
