In Russia, more Kremlin critics are being imprisoned as intolerance of dissent grows
Associated PressRussia under President Vladimir Putin has been closing in on those who challenge the Kremlin. One such case concluded Thursday in St. Petersburg, Russia’s second largest city, where a court sentenced artist and musician Sasha Skochilenko to seven years in prison after she replaced several supermarket price tags with slogans decrying the war. ILYA YASHIN One of the few well-known Kremlin critics to have stayed in Russia after the start of the war, Yashin was arrested in June 2022 while walking in a Moscow park and was sentenced to 8½ years in prison on a conviction of spreading false information about Russian soldiers. DMITRY IVANOV A student activist, Ivanov was arrested in April 2022 over social media posts on his Telegram channel that called Russia’s campaign in Ukraine a “war” and talked about Russian forces attacking civilians and civilian infrastructure in Ukraine. It was staged in 2021 and a year later won two Golden Masks, Russia’s most prestigious state- GRIGORY MELKONYANTS Melkonyants, co-chair of Russia’s leading election watchdog Golos, was arrested in August and charged with being involved with an “undesirable” organization.
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