Moscow court jails anti-Kremlin activist

A Moscow court jailed an anti-Kremlin activist for two and a half years on Thursday on charges of taking part in a foreign-funded plot to overthrow President Vladimir Putin, RIA-Novosti reports.
Konstantin Lebedev, of the Left Front political movement, pleaded guilty to the charges, which were brought last autumn after the pro-Kremlin TV channel NTV aired what it said was secretly filmed footage of three leftist activists, including Lebedev, discussing a plot to topple Putin with a Georgian politican.
Investigators said Lebedev, as part of the plot, helped organized riots during a Moscow rally on the eve of Putin's May 7, 2012 inauguration to a controversial third presidential term of office. The opposition blames the police for provoking the clashes and claims the case is political.