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A Russian Dissident Gets Sent to Prison for Telling the Truth About Ukraine

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A Russian Dissident Gets Sent to Prison for Telling the Truth About Ukraine

Ilya Yashin stayed in Russia when it invaded Ukraine. Now, he's being imprisoned by a government that criminalizes truth.

Luke Johnson
Dec 12, 2022
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Days after the invasion of Ukraine, the Russian government adopted a series of laws making it a crime to call the war a war and the invasion an invasion. One aspect of the criminal code, punishable b…

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