<p id="thickbox_headline">Russia issued an arrest warrant for the brother of jailed Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny on Wednesday, part of ongoing efforts to silence opposition voices critical of the Kremlin.</p>.<p>The interior ministry said Oleg Navalny, 38, is wanted on criminal charges, without providing further details and his name appeared on the ministry's wanted list, an <em>AFP</em> journalist confirmed Wednesday.</p>.<p>The move comes one day after Russia's prison authority requested courts to convert a suspended sentence he is serving into real jail time for violating coronavirus regulations.</p>.<p><strong>Read more: <a href="https://www.deccanherald.com/international/world-news-politics/ukraines-front-line-where-lives-turn-on-distant-decisions-1074838.html" target="_blank">Ukraine's front line: Where lives turn on distant decisions</a></strong></p>.<p>Lawyer Nikos Paraskevov told the Interfax news agency Wednesday that the arrest warrant was issued when police were unable to locate Oleg Navalny at his residence.</p>.<p>Paraskevov said it was not clear whether the 38-year-old had left the country.</p>.<p>Almost all of Alexei Navalny's most prominent allies have fled Russia after he was jailed and his organisations were outlawed.</p>.<p>Last August, Oleg Navalny was handed a one-year suspended sentence for breaking pandemic restrictions during protests demanding his brother's release.</p>.<p>He was accused of calling for Russians to attend an unsanctioned rally in January 2021 in support of his brother, who had returned to Russia after being treated in Germany for a near-fatal poisoning attack.</p>.<p>A Moscow court announced Monday it will consider the reqest to jail Navalny on February 18.</p>.<p>In 2014, Alexei and Oleg Navalny were convicted in a fraud trial, which Kremlin critics say was politically motivated, related to their work for French cosmetics company Yves Rocher.</p>.<p>Oleg served three-and-a-half years in prison and was released in 2018, while Alexei received a three-and-a-half-year suspended sentence</p>.<p>After returning to Russia last year, Alexei had his suspended sentence converted to jail time, which he is serving in a penal colony outside Moscow.</p>.<p>President Vladimir Putin's most vocal domestic opponent spent months in Germany recovering from a poisoning attack that he and the West blame on the Kremlin.</p>
<p id="thickbox_headline">Russia issued an arrest warrant for the brother of jailed Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny on Wednesday, part of ongoing efforts to silence opposition voices critical of the Kremlin.</p>.<p>The interior ministry said Oleg Navalny, 38, is wanted on criminal charges, without providing further details and his name appeared on the ministry's wanted list, an <em>AFP</em> journalist confirmed Wednesday.</p>.<p>The move comes one day after Russia's prison authority requested courts to convert a suspended sentence he is serving into real jail time for violating coronavirus regulations.</p>.<p><strong>Read more: <a href="https://www.deccanherald.com/international/world-news-politics/ukraines-front-line-where-lives-turn-on-distant-decisions-1074838.html" target="_blank">Ukraine's front line: Where lives turn on distant decisions</a></strong></p>.<p>Lawyer Nikos Paraskevov told the Interfax news agency Wednesday that the arrest warrant was issued when police were unable to locate Oleg Navalny at his residence.</p>.<p>Paraskevov said it was not clear whether the 38-year-old had left the country.</p>.<p>Almost all of Alexei Navalny's most prominent allies have fled Russia after he was jailed and his organisations were outlawed.</p>.<p>Last August, Oleg Navalny was handed a one-year suspended sentence for breaking pandemic restrictions during protests demanding his brother's release.</p>.<p>He was accused of calling for Russians to attend an unsanctioned rally in January 2021 in support of his brother, who had returned to Russia after being treated in Germany for a near-fatal poisoning attack.</p>.<p>A Moscow court announced Monday it will consider the reqest to jail Navalny on February 18.</p>.<p>In 2014, Alexei and Oleg Navalny were convicted in a fraud trial, which Kremlin critics say was politically motivated, related to their work for French cosmetics company Yves Rocher.</p>.<p>Oleg served three-and-a-half years in prison and was released in 2018, while Alexei received a three-and-a-half-year suspended sentence</p>.<p>After returning to Russia last year, Alexei had his suspended sentence converted to jail time, which he is serving in a penal colony outside Moscow.</p>.<p>President Vladimir Putin's most vocal domestic opponent spent months in Germany recovering from a poisoning attack that he and the West blame on the Kremlin.</p>