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Russian Anti-War Activist Sentenced To Six Years In Prison For Internet Posts (www.rferl.org)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (21 children)

This news story is over a year ago, and the US locks up people all the time for political reasons

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

yeah both are bad

although the source on this article is dubious so this case is probably made up

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

I don't know if they'd go through the effort of staging the photo

https://vkrizis.ru/obschestvo/olga-smirnova-prigovorena-k-shesti-godam-za-sem-postov/ https://www.kommersant.ru/doc/6186252

I don't read russian but I think this is legit? I just copied and pasted her Cyrillic name in Duck Duck Go, so these might still be western propaganda targeted towards Russians like I said I don't speak or read Russian or know major outlets in Russia.

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