MOSCOW — Jailed Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny, looking gaunt and drained after a hunger strike, denounced Russia’s justice system on Thursday as his team said he faced new criminal charges and that it was disbanding a network of regional campaign offices.
In his first appearance since declaring an end to the three-week hunger strike last week, Navalny, his head shaven, remained defiant, though a blurry video link from jail during a legal hearing in a separate case showed he had lost weight.
Rejecting accusations in the separate case of defaming a World War Two veteran, Navalny said: “I demand that people who signed signatures (against him), (and) the prosecutors be brought to…
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