Earlier today we were following the case of jailed Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny as he appeared in court. 

This morning (see post at 10.01am) we explained that Mr Navalny appeared in a court in Moscow’s Basmanny district on a charge of extremism. 

During the hearing, Mr Navalny heard he was facing an extra charge on terrorism, which could see him sentenced to an additional 30 years in prison.

Since then, Mr Navalny’s spokesperson, Kira Yarmysh, said the judge overseeing the extremism case had given the Putin critic 10 days to familiarise himself with documents related to the case.

There were 196 volumes of documents, according to Russian state news agency TASS.

Mr Navalny’s daughter told CNN that in “each volume there are 250 double-spaced pages”.

He has until 5 May to get through the documents after which the court will consider the charge again.

“The judge limited the period of familiarisation with the case of ‘extremism’ until 5 May,” Ms Yarmysh said in a tweet.

Mr Yarmysh made it clear that the count of extremism was different to the one for terrorism.

She said: “Now Alexei will have two large court cases.

“First, on extremism – in total for all episodes up to 30 years. Most likely, it will begin before the end of May. 

“Then on terrorism – up to 35 years.”

Describing the terrorism charge announced today as “simply amazing” she said the new case had been brought for comments about President Putin to his former chief of staff.

Mr Navalny is already serving 11 and a half years in a maximum-security prison, on charges including fraud and contempt of court.