Voice of America · Russia, OH
US-based Russian activist sentenced to 6 years in absentia for "military fakes"
Editor's note: this story was translated from the original VOA Russian article. A court in Ulan-Ude, Russia, has sentenced U.S.-based activist and researcher Maria Vyushkova in absentia to six years in prison on a charge of allegedly “spreading knowingly false information” about the Russian armed forces. "The kind of persecution in absentia and then attempts to put pressure on relatives who remained in Russia" are now becoming more widespread, Vyushkova VOA's Russian service. The case...
