The Kirov Regional Court changed the sentence to Alexei Navalny and Pyotr Ofitserov, handed down on July 18 by the Leninsky Court of Kirov, to a suspended sentence with a five-year probationary period. Defense appeal denied. The actual terms to which Navalny and Ofitserov had previously been sentenced by the Leninsky Court of Kirov were five and four years in prison, respectively, they were replaced by suspended sentences, but both had the same probationary period.