

Russia Criminalizes Independent War Reporting and Anti-War Protestshttps://www.theguardian.com/world/20...anti-war-views
"Discrediting" armed forces, calling to end the war, backing sanctions become crimes.
Soviet-era dissident given draconian jail sentence in Russia for anti-war views
Alexander Skobov jailed for 16 years over social media post
A self-described leftwing pacifist, Skobov published the dissident Soviet journal Perspektivy in what was then Leningrad, and spoke out against the Soviet war in Afghanistan, and later Russia’s the wars in Chechnya, and, more recently, Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine, which began in 2014.
The sentence Skobov was given on Friday was extreme even by the already-repressive standards of today’s Russia. Observers said it highlighted how modern Russia had surpassed the scale of repression seen during the post-Stalin Soviet era.
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