Two Russian servicemen, Colonel Anatoliy Bondarev and Major Dmytriy Dmytrakov, have been sentenced to four years in prison by the 2nd Western Military District Court in Moscow, Russian propaganda outlet Kommersant reported on Dec. 6.
A Russian court on Thursday convicted an artist and musician for swapping supermarket price tags with antiwar messages, sentencing her to seven years in prison in the latest crackdown on free speech. Sasha Skochilenko was arrested in her native St. Petersburg in April 2022 and charged with spreading false information about the military after replacing tiny price tags with ones that decried Russia's invasion of Ukraine. Skochilenko's arrest came about a month after authorities adopted a law effectively criminalizing any public expression about the war that deviates from the official Kremlin line.