Nikita Belykh, a politician and former head of the Union of Right Forces party and a staunch opponent of Vladimir Putin’s rule. Elected to the Perm Oblast Legislative Assembly, he later served as governor of Kirov Oblast, before being dismissed and convicted in 2018 on trumped up bribery charges, for which he got an eight-year prison term.
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