Activists, everyday Russians and a soldier punished for war talk

TL;DR

rights campaigner Oleg Orlov was detained this week on charges of “repeatedly discrediting the armed forces”. Ilya Yashin, a Moscow councillor, ally of jailed Kremlin critic Alexey Navalny and one of the few prominent Russian opposition figures not to leave the country, was handed eight and a half years in prison over his YouTube stream in which he discussed alleged atrocities carried out by Russian soldiers in the Ukrainian town of Bucha. Repeat offenders, such as Roizman, risk up to three years in prison

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