In August Navalny suddenly fell critically ill on a commercial flight in Russia

Looking gaunt after a weeks-long prison hunger strike, a defiant Alexei Navalny appeared by video link in court on Thursday, where he denounced Russian President Vladimir Putin as a “naked, thieving king.”

The hearing comes as Navalny’s anticorruption network – the backbone of his political organization – said it would shut down because it could no longer operate amid Kremlin efforts to have it declared an “extremist” organization. Earlier this week, the Babushkinsky District Court in Moscow ordered the network’s activities suspended in an apparent prelude to it being permanently shuttered.

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Navalny’s remarks on Thursday before the court in Moscow were seen on a blurry video connection from the prison where the opposition figure has been held since he was sentenced in February.

It was the first court appearance for the 44-year-old activist since he embarked on a March hunger strike that lasted 24 days to protest a lack of medical attention for pain in his leg and back. Last week, Navalny announced that on the advice of doctors he would discontinue the protest.

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Even so, tens of thousands of people demonstrated nationwide last week as a show of solidarity with Navalny. Hundreds were detained by police.

The Thursday hearing was aimed at appealing a guilty verdict on a charge that Navalny defamed a World War II veteran, a charge widely seen as politically motivated. Among other things, the court rejected an appeal to void an 850,000 ruble ($11,500) fine in connection with the conviction.

Sporting a newly shaved head, Navalny told the court that he had tried to tidy himself to look “decent” for the hearing. He undid his prison uniform to reveal a T-shirt covering his thin torso.

“I looked in the mirror,” he said according to Reuters. “Of course, I’m just a dreadful skeleton,” the reportedly 189 cm (6′ 2″) tall opposition leader said, adding that he now weighs just 72 kg (159 pounds) — the same weight as when he was a teenager.

They say the commander-in-chief plays an influential role in popular culture – so maybe President Biden’s campaign-trail moniker wore off on some of those in the audience during his speech to a joint session of Congress Wednesday night.

Texas Sen. Ted Cruz appears to have been fighting the urge to doze off around the time Biden brought up the border crisis, roughly an hour into his speech, video shows.

Biden turned his attention to the influx of migrants at the southern border, arguing in support of his proposal to handling it when the camera cut to Cruz, who had his eyes closed.

They quickly opened up – but after blinking and glancing around the room, they shut once again.

The senator’s office did not immediately respond to a request for comment – but he responded to a tweeted video of his quick snooze with a single message: “#BoringButRadical.”

Apparently he woke up after that – tweeting praise for North Carolina Republican Sen. Tim Scott’s rebuttal of Biden’s address, which immediately followed the presidential speech.

“Well done, @SenatorTimScott on tonight’s Republican response,” Cruz wrote. “Tim outlined Republican values and leadership — a sharp contrast to Biden’s radical vision for our country that would turn the American Dream into an American nightmare.”

Biden has proposed an immigration reform bill which he urged Congress to pass to “fix” American migrant policy, and argued that the crisis should be addressed on the ground in Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador to prevent migrants from coming to the U.S. to begin with.

He invited Republicans to offer counter proposals during his speech. But he offered little in the form of a stopgap measure or a short-term solution to the crisis.

And Vice President Kamala Harris, who is leading the administration’s effort to handle the influx of migrants at the border, hasn’t even visited it.

If none of those solutions work, he asked Congress to come up with its own bipartisan solutions, even if they addressed only little bits of the crisis at a time.

Republican attorneys general from border and non-border states have sued the president over his handling of the crisis so far, according to the Republican Attorneys General Association.

According to the Departments of Homeland Security and Health and Human Services, there were more than 1,000 unaccompanied minors in Customs and Border Protection custody and another 22,000 in HHS care as of Tuesday.

Last month, authorities reported a record number of children crossing the border illegally among the more than 172,000 migrants CBP officers encountered in March alone.

At one point in the proceedings, Navalny interrupted the judge before being rebuked. “I want to tell the dear court that your king is naked,” he said of Putin. “His crown is hanging and slipping.”

He reiterated allegations of corruption that the Kremlin has denied: “Your naked, thieving king wants to continue to rule until the end. … Another 10 years will come, a stolen decade will come,” he said.

Meanwhile, Leonid Volkov, who runs Navalny’s regional political offices, said Thursday that it had become “impossible” for them to continue operating after the government suspended their operation.

“We’re officially dismantling the network of Navalny’s headquarters,” Volkov said on the messaging app Telegram, according to Reuters.

On YouTube, Volkov said that continuing “would immediately … lead to criminal sentences for those who work in the headquarters, who collaborate with them and for those who help them.”

In August, Navalny suddenly fell critically ill on a commercial flight in Russia. After treatment in a Russian hospital he was medevaced to Germany, where doctors determined that he had been poisoned by Novichok, a Soviet-era military grade nerve agent that had reportedly been used by Russian intelligence in a previous assassination attempt on a former Russian spy in the U.K. Navalny has blamed Putin for ordering his death, an allegation that the Kremlin denies.

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Navalny’s allies said Thursday that as they studied the case files against Navalny’s political organization, they discovered that he, Volkov and Ivan Zhdanov, the head of Navalny’s Anti-Corruption Foundation, or FBK, are facing previously unknown criminal charges, according to The Moscow Times.

The three stand accused of creating an organization “infringing upon the liberties and rights of individuals,” an offense punishable by up to four years in jail, the newspaper said.

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