A worker paints over graffiti of jailed Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny in St Petersburg. The inscription reads: “The hero of the new times." Photo by OLGA MALTSEVA/AFP via Getty Images In the end, the outcome of the trial was predictable. On 4 August, just as he had anticipated, the Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny was found guilty of “extremism” and sentenced to another 19 years in jail. These will be added to the nine-year sentence that Navalny is already serving in a high-security penal colony on charges of fraud, which Western analysts and human rights groups agree are politically motivated....